You sir are a mastermind of UA-cam. You have been building a great foundation here. You have discovered a huge niche of simply 'being real' and telling stories. You understand what topics and titles to use, for current issues like AI. I made a video about "Will AI take your job?" 8 months ago and some jobs certainly have gone in that direction now.
Don’t worry, your UA-cam channel will grow because people are interested in wonderful Japan. Then you will have a nice side income doing something you love ❤️
How about being an English capable tour guide of Japan? You would be amazed how many foreigners would love to find a proficient English speaking tour guide, giving private tours or small group tours. You can charge in US dollars and all international tourists are armed with USD anyway
@@BornToTroll-it5ju when I visited Japan with a Malaysian-Japanese tour guide, she took tips for sure. There's a minimum of $8 per day per person she asked us to contribute as it is for her and the driver. She was upfront about it from the start so no worries, and $8/day is fine
yeah it's a good biz to be in right now actually. I train two officially licensed tour guides here in Kyushu. It's been popping ever since covid has ended, and both have had to put our class on the backburner due to the overdemand. They get access to most public facilities for free, they get the bigger and better jobs that the govt won't entrust to anyone without the proper licensing, such as guiding vips and celebs, taking people arriving on cruises around Nagasaki and such. Tbh I don't think the base pay is all that and a bag of potatoes (outrageous for how notoriously difficult it is to get the license) but tipping is allowed and the work comes with a lot of variety and perks. That said, I doubt he'd earn more than he currently gets.
Yes 100%!!!! @Askjapan I would absolutely go on a tour hosted by you!! I will pay for it. My mum and dad (66 and 80 years old) would also be interested. You could make very good money especially because the Japanese yen is weakening so Japan is becoming more accessible (we're Australian so the weakening yen makes AUD go much further in Japan). There would be a huge market for it. Plus you will get to meet lots of new people if you do this!
I lost my job to AI last year. Specifically, my company transitioned from making software for end users to making AI-assisted tools for other companies, which did not require as many developers.
As a person who has been trying to learn Japanese, a tutor/teacher is an essential component in truly grasping the language. Apps are good, don't get me wrong and I have found them more useful than even College classes, but nothing will ever beat human interaction
At that age, traditional, normal career opportunities are slim. So the best thing to do, in my humble opinion, would be to take all your life experience, and however little free time you have, and start some small scale own business, as a part time hobby. A small website selling something, a small virtual consultation company, anything really, even if it just barely brings any income at all. Be your own boss at least few hours per week.
Im a designer and do video editing and game dev on the side. All of these will be impacted massively by AI. Im transitioning into trying to sell my art as physical collectables. I think you have a decent following and community. If i were in your position i would create a series where you take paid guests to interesting spots in Japan, use that footage to build your channel.
About a decade ago I had an audio speech to text transcription job. Now automatic subtitles and transcription are available for free. Technology gives generously with one hand but always takes slightly with the other.
you would think that if we were acting as a collective... AI doing jobs would help anyone by freeing us up. But then you look at the system we have built and you realise. That the more efficient systems are the more the poor go hungry. Late stage capitalism is going to bring people to the brink.
Well, not sure if it will make any difference but myself and many people I know here in New Zealand prefer to speak to an actual person. Appears many countries are having serious economic issues. I am sure you will find your way, it is good to talk things out, thanks for being real in a world that is increasingly becoming fake online. I wish you all the best. I have subscribed to your channel I hope your channel continues to grow and assist you.
Dollar Milkshake theory: The USD will destroy many foreign economies, not just Japan's. The "Dollar Milkshake Theory" is a concept popularized by Brent Johnson, CEO of Santiago Capital, which offers a unique perspective on the future dynamics of the global financial system, particularly the role of the U.S. dollar. The theory posits that despite the United States' significant monetary easing and fiscal deficits, the U.S. dollar will strengthen significantly relative to other currencies. This strengthening will occur because, in a crisis, global capital flows into the dollar as a safe haven, effectively "sucking" capital from the rest of the world-like a straw in a milkshake.
Have you considered being a guide for English-speaking tourists? I hope to visit Japan soon, but im scared because I don't speak any Japanese. I have wondered if I could meet up with someone from Japan to help guide me. I have no idea if this would be a viable business model for someone, though.
I work as an animation director and I still hire voice artists on Fiver and human composers/vocal performers. I have no interest in using ai for voice overs, music, writing, art, animation etc.
I think the creatives will mostly be safe. AI can copy at best, they can never generate unique new ideas. I think creation is one thing the AI's can never touch. They can only mimic. No way they're replacing chefs, musicians and artists.
@@PWCDNI don’t know man. When the plumber down the street needs a new logo for his business, is he going to hire a graphic designer for a few hundred bucks, or just go on a website and have 100’s of potential logos made for free in 2 minutes, exactly to his liking?
Hi sir! I study Japanese myself and i really love to hear your opinion about different thing. I'm also having a lot of concerns about AI in the future. There is a chance I also will be changing job due to those problems. I wish you all best in your life and career. If you will decide to study Japanese i will be happy to learn from you. Best wishes! ❤
I'm in the backend software field and deal with A.I myself so I'd say the best thing to do is find a position unaffected by machine learning or implement machine learning in a way that boost your own productivity but highlight your skills that cannot be replaced to showcase your company can't get rid of you so easily. I myself had to get away from front-end development because that was menial enough to be done by A.I but the machine learning is not intelligent enough to do data structures themselves. This is just like when cotton workers were replaced by cotton-gin and sewing machines in America long ago, people just became sewing machine operators instead of doing it by hand.
@@muzammilshareef1951 AI needs to improve a huge huge amount in order for it to be capable of writing code as a production ready level. There also need to be people that understand how and why code works in order to use the AI to build the code. Also, humans are making a logical error in thinking that AI is going to get so much better so fast. Yes there was a huge breakthrough with LLMs in the last few years, but that took years and years to develop. It’s fallacious to assume that AI is going to keep getting better like that in a linear or exponential fashion.
Hello. Living in Japan 🇯🇵. Thanks for sharing your thoughts about a variety of topics we who live in Japan care. Don’t mean stealing jobs to interpreters and translators?
Trade and vocational schools that teach such skills as plumbing, electrical work etc. is where we're likely to see the biggest growth in as these jobs require hand manipulation (i.e. configuring a pipe that goes through and/or bends around a wall stud) that cannot be easily replicated by AI.
It can unfortunately yesterday I read a fresh paper about robots now being able to learn by AI with is basically an unprecedented increase in learning and now they have the dexterity to do almost every task. Give it 5 years and its over
yes, "customer service" careers will never die, jobs dealing with people will never be replaced by AI. Most "white collar" jobs will have the biggest risk come AI's maturity. Even some doctors will be replaced (or displaced aka have to spread out to find work). This will be the biggest challenge for intellectual careers most likely. These people get paid the most now and is the most lucrative for employers to replace them with AI. Just a matter of time professors are replaced by AI, if you published a book and is digitized, AI will learn its content and analyse it faster than the speed of light. I'm just hoping I can retire by the time that happens, hopefully doesn't happen soon.
people are trying but AI seems horrible for research too. Although academia is a small segment of society... I am becoming a part of segment so thats encouraging lol
I've been learning Japanese for 2 years and I'm kinda sad I'll never be able to support myself as a translator. Also when manga/anime/books start getting instant translations to English, reading/watching my favorite content in Japanese will be somewhat pointless. Of course if I wanted to work/travel to Japan, I would still need it, but since I don't have an opportunity to do so, my effort has been rendered useless. Of course I will learn the language to fluency, I enjoy the process of learning, but yeah, utility is gone for me.
@@yeahtbh.161 It doesn't bother me as I'm in a country with an even lower standard of living. Also about having 'fun' with Japanese women, I don't care. The only way I could visit Japan is by working or going to graduate school there since I will never be able to justify the expense otherwise. The reason I started learning Japanese in the first place is because I liked their media and culture. I learned English for the same reason and to this day haven't been to an English speaking country and have only spoken to a couple of English speakers throughout the years. But yeah I totally get it, you don't wanna live on a sinking ship and having fun doesn't require you to learn the language. Thanks for replying, best of luck
This is a very sad reality, this is similar like Industrial revolution but worse, idk if we can stop the marching with boycott. I'm really sorry to hear that my friend.
Hello, I love watching your video. Maybe you cna teach Japanese on italki since there is a solid market of people trying to learn Japanese from the US. You are right about translation jobs dying a little because of chat GPT. But there will always be Americans trying to learn Japanese. You can make USD pretty quickly because you can speak both Japanese and English very well.
As someone who has a penchant for writing, I like the whole process of coming up with an idea, and formulating the content/article, editing, and the countless revisions and rereading that I have to do until I'm satisfied with my own work, as it is with my published articles. I find that AI-written contents, as shown in the examples I've read, and also based on comments by other people on forums about ChatGPT, are quite bland, and lack personal style, wit, or soul to it. And I find it funny when some people proudly come up with an article written by an AI. Maybe it is useful in other areas, especially when those using it are still learning how to write, it can be quite a good tool to improve one's general grammar, and vocabulary. But writing is an art form, and if it's not done by a human being, then it's not an art that can be credited to that person who formulated it. That being said, I have nothing against AI which is created to make work/life a lot easier in a fast-paced, and only getting faster society as a result of technological advancement, but I'd like to look at it as an AI assistant that helps humans with primarily spelling and grammar, and not the other way around because that would be funny, and completely dumb if AI is in control over a human being lol.
I'm a technical Japanese to English translator at a large company in Japan. ChatGPT and other AI translation software is not at the point where it will take my job yet. AI software is a big security risk because of the possibility of it leaking sensitive data. It also cannot understand the context of the text or see the relationship between the text and things like images, charts, and diagrams. Sometimes it decides to insert random numbers and letters into sentences which makes checking documents a nightmare. If it ever gets to the point where it will take my job, then it will also render management useless, too. If you're a manager looking to use AI to make a quick profit, just take a minute to think that once AI takes over your employees, then you are no-longer required either.
@@sparta007otMachine translation has been around for over a decade now and the translation market is still alive and well. ChatGPT translation is no better than Google Translate. Heck, even DeepL is way more advanced than ChatGPT when it comes to translation.
There are also local LLMs that can be used for 100% privacy and control. GPT4 is probably the best right now, but there are some LLMs that are free that are on the top close to it. In the future there will probably be more free LLMs for companies to use if privacy is 100% if it is their concern.
@@sparta007ot I really don't think so. I'm not sure how things will be in decades, but I highly doubt AI will actually grow strong enough to actually understand context in 5 years or so. It will be better at guessing context that is for sure, but actually understand it would require a whole new level of AI which I don't think it will exist so soon.
Evidently AI will take over many jobs and so many of us become redundant and unemployed. Thus that seems a good idea to see if we can synchronise our efforts with AI related jobs. However, the other alternative is to look for professions and jobs that AI is not capable to do yet. The kind of jobs that need lots of handiwork, like cooking, gardening, plumbing, etc. Although we need to be aware that Robotics is speeding up as well. Frankly we don't have much chances nor alternatives to change things and we need to plan well and work harder to secure a better life for our retirement.
The "gig-economy" has been hit hard by AI. I think we are going to see a real demand for jobs that require specialized hands-on skills. Computer centric and digitally dependent jobs are becoming far less sought after with the rise of AI tools. I work in computers and strongly believe that the bulk of the work that I will be expected to do in the coming years will be hardware and physical repair/installation work. So much of what is either software assisted or digitally dependent is being funneled into AI in order to save time and or money.
you are right there is even a special term for it "job disruption". btw in japan they have for example special term for a woman that is beutiful only form back side haha. no other language has that. i know it is quite stressing the chat gpt thing but try not to be depressive about it.
Although the exchange rate prompted your exploration of this topic, it doesn’t change the fact - the ability to deliver real value in the market (regardless of forex rates) is going to be a hard question to answer for all stakeholders in the economy…
The technology is scary. I've played around with Udio and Suno, which do full music with lyrics, and I personally can't tell usually that it's A.I. I think with music it's almost worse because we've adjusted to the idea that people use things like autotune to change their voices. Even the deepfake AI of people talking has gotten good enough I can't normally tell at first glance. I do think that with AI, we're still going to need people to make sure things are accurate, but those jobs won't pay near as well. Maybe you can find me extra work in Japan and I can try to find you work here. Us oldies are staring at a crazy future.
this is not a problem to think asn individuals. It's an urgent problem that every country will have to solve in the next few months with policies like UBI
Next few months? Diddly squat will happen in the next few months. In three years they will start talking about things and nothing will happen. In 10 years society will look different.
I read that an English speaking tour guide in Japan average salary is $70k USD on average. It would be an interesting way to meet new people also, on a 3 dimensional conscientious way.
Your videos resonated with me. Thank you for sharing. Gen. AI is a tool. World changing perhaps. At some level, I would argue that what you (a lot of assumptions...) really do cannot be replaced, yet. I imagine your core strength to be "connecting". Connecting people to goods/services, people to people. Your ability to engage emotionally and dig deep to really understand people perhaps can help you reframe the value you provide, which in turn translates into an even more fulfilled life. Wishing you all the best.
a cheater tool most like ai needs to be stopped next thing we know ai will be in military which it already started and here we go with terminator type world which is really scary
That's nothing compared to what the India Inc staffing companies will do to Japan's jobs if you don't stop them from breaking in. There's now a huge TCS building right next to Tokyo Tower.
Technology will keep developing. It will never replace the value of human interaction though. Look at how many people are using UA-cam and Instagram and so on. Things are not easy but there will alyways be a way to carry on.
AI in general presents a serious problem for economies all over the world because these AI implements will be instituted all at the same time for corporations who can afford them. Huge chunks of economies will be taken over by AI.
UBI or get ready for mass unrests and civil disorder all over the world. Sadly, I do not believe rich and powerful have enough empathy or good sense to take UBI route.
It was really curious how people thought that language-related jobs would not be replaced any time soon by computers. I mean, Artificial Neural Networks were already a thing many years ago, but with the Transformer concept, it scaled to this really weird technology that can imitate intelligence to the point that it is, in many ways, truly intelligent. I'm not sure what kind of breakthroughs AI companies might come up with, but lately, I've seen some things that made me realize that right now, people have too high expectations and that perhaps there's a wall in front of us soon. Also, I still think that you cannot simply delegate all existential issues to a technology monopolized by corporations. I believe that many aspects of our lives haven't been addressed because corporations have taken control of them, and this may be the gate to open that door to many other aspects of our life. I've seen and believe more in ordinary people who strive for goodness and keep thinking for themselves. Greetings and Thanks for the video!
Auto regressive prediction models aren't intelligent. They are glorified auto complete tied to noise for variable output. Companies like OpenAI have done a great job at fooling investors and the public that it's real intelligence, but that couldn't be further from the case. AGI won't arrive for a good several decades, unfortunately every manager and CEOs now thinks that AI can do another persons job for free. I guess doing a job well doesn't matter when zero competition exist because every startup is running out of that sweet venture capital money.
I get u brother. I got laid off as well, my former company partnered up with openAi. Nobody will have a job( at least 80%) in 10-15 years. We will get UBI and will have to find a new identity
@@user-ft5kh5um1r the robots will be taxed and wealth distribution would be UBI. Worldcoin exist , it’s Sam altmans crypto, you get a certain amount each month ( yesterday I got 16 euro). It’s not much but it helps with a little food. When I got laid off I couldn’t pay my rent and I sold by accumulated worldcoin and paid my rent and got one month worth of food..
Right now, AI can also create realistic backgrounds and videos of people talking...in fact, you cannot tell that the person talking in the video is AI or real. It is that good. So, this also means that newscasters, actors and vloggers can be replaced by AI. You already have hololive or anime style streamers...but this is where someone can make instant movies with realistic looking actors and backgrounds but it is ALL generated by AI. However, evenso, as a human, I prefer to watch what I assume is a real human. I newly subbed to your channel. You can probably do consultations for business and editing of materials that have been translated by ChatGPT. Or, if you can figure out a problem to solve, people will pay you for solving that problem. For example, in Japan, I wonder if there is a problem with population growth and therefore more and more people are aging. A major issue then is who will end up caring for elderly people? There doesn't seem to be enough people to sustain the system. So, my understanding is that Japan is trying to increase the use of robotics and self sufficient stores and hotels. Trying to make robots for elder care and companionship. I guess robotics is a rising work area? But, I think most people would prefer real people, maybe? So, is there some manner you can address that situation? There was one business in Japan which rents families or grandmas or husbands or whatever family you need. It seems to be addressing that sometimes people need to have someone available for social situations but they are isolated or lonely or can't talk to their real family. Then there is something called "Evergreen" jobs...these jobs will always be necessary. The care and disposing of the dead, healthcare, water cleaning, elder care, food....in many ways, those can be taken over by AI or robots. In production, robots are becoming more used and so less workers are needed. But they still need some to handle the robots. Healthcare? More and more robots and being used so maybe eventually doctors will be replaced. Phone sales will be taken over by AI. Even marketing strategies can probably be done by AI but still I think most humans wish to handle transactions and deals between people. I wonder if you are noticing in marketing and business if this is still true?
It is inevitable. Resistance is Futile. Frankly. i have no ideas what future careers for my kid to take. Seems everything will be taken over by AI eventually and robots dexterity is getting better and better and most jobs can and will be taken over. Everyone's expandable. Maybe only highly skill jobs like surgeons will be still out of reach for the immediate and near future.
I personally think virtually every tutoring job should already be replaced. If someone is being hired as a tutor they are probably acting as more of a babysitter or a motivational coach.
8 months ago I wanted to do transcription work but discovered that AI had already replaced the beginner transcription workers. So I decided to make a video for youtube instead.
Why dont you open up an international marketing consultancy? You could take you knowlege of english and chatgpt and help companies utilize it. You can also provide some level of quality check. Many companies in japan might not be comfortable with using such a new technology yet, and you could help them transition to using it
If you want to make extra money you might look into options about teaching Japanese, I think it is getting more popular as a language. As for GPT stealing all jobs, I work as programmer, there is no way it can steal anything right now, I can't even use it tried, most of the time it gives wrong stuff and then I lose too much time trying to find what the issue was, not thinking it would be the "AI code" that is supposed to be correct but isn't. I basically only use it to "interrogate" it when I am starting to use a new technology then I don't bother at all.
Don't feel too comfy. It probably can't do a proper code now...but once everything's integrated with the development platofrm and compilers and licensing issues and AI has improves, it will take over coding....Jensen Huang already said this. And yes, coding is my background. If you gave clear instructions to ChatGPT it can actually generate some decent code with at least the basic logic in place. And it's done in a few seconds....faster than i ever could generate so many pages of code in just a few seconds. I can't even type that fast.
automatic translation has done a good job in translating Japanese, only 2 years ago it was not very effective, but currently the translation is almost perfect, there are still some hiccups but it works pretty well in 80% of cases. However, Japanese rarely uses personal pronouns and the context has an important role in the translation, so human intervention is required to refine the translation.
What you are seeing with AI is just the beginning. Saying please won’t stop the momentum behind this massive disrupter tech. Best you find a new income source.
I feel that people must start learning how to prompt AI now, because it's a very powerful tool. Those who don't learn it, will become irrelevant. I do believe that some people will lose their jobs because you will not need 5 people to output the same amount as 1-2 people + GPT/AI tools.
Maybe yes, but maybe not. There are some theories that AI has peaked already because all of the data available has been "used up" and still AI is creating data which can't be trained upon. Search for the Computerphile channel and look for the video on AI.
I work in the NLP field which is where chatGPT stems from. Treat chatGPT as you would the Internet. Yes, it will destroy many jobs but it will also create many more. Do yourself a favor and adapt.
If you can do sales you can make money. In the rich part of the US I live in, manual laborer handymen, putzing around in their silly pickup trucks, make $200k/yr because white collar trust fund kids are so lazy here. In Cali, UPS drivers are making 150k/yr. I knew a 50 yo Tibetan local UPS driver who owned 2 houses and was renting one out and recently got a 20 yo wife.
Hey man! i think youtube is a good opportunity for you. What you are doing now is great, but imagine if you started increasing the quality/editing and putting a lot of effort into it. You could make millions Edit: I think he should still do these kind of videos but he might find quicker success with edited videos. Ive had friends make huge amount of money off youtube and experimented with it myself, it would be really good money, especially in japan
Use gpt at your favor Even if the machine learning tool is good, it is not perfect A revision using a real native person is something good I used to work for a company this year where we had to make revision for the machine Not every time it is perfect
The Japanese infrastructure is great for what is being spent to the quality of services. So if US people a lot of them have big interest in Japan so if there is a way to provide Japanese services like idk IT services or a dental work or education to the US people where they spend money in Japan then that could be a business or service of quality people around the world not only the US would be interested in.
Japan can afford the infrastructure for that because their cities aren't drowning in debt from low density housing developments. Every square meter (or acre) of gas, sewage, internet, and electricity needs to be maintained from a portion of the taxes of those who live in the area. They also need to help pay for services (like police and fire department). When you do the math, all American suburbs are in the negatives, which neighboring cities have to help subsidize. Now those cities can't afford to add more services, and are forced to crumble along with the suburbs they're helping. You would think the local governments would build higher density housing, and allow for small businesses to be built next to houses to increase the tax revenue per acre right?? Nope, they instead build more suburbs and use those funds from the new suburbs to finance the maintenance of the old suburbs, because if they build higher density housing it would lower the prices of real estate in the area which makes rich people not happy since their net-worth and investments are tied to those prices. I wonder which ones they'll run out of first, space or money, I guess we'll just have to see.
People clamouring for immigration to solve Japan's declining birth rate should consider the fact that 50% of current jobs will have been made obsolete by AI and mass-automation within the next 20 years
@@sparta007ot My wife and I have raised 5 kids in Japan with my wife staying home to raise the kids and on my salary alone. I make 60k a year...that's less than 10k a year per person per year.
We've raised 5 kids in Japan on my salary alone with my wife staying home to take care of the kids. I make 60k a year. That's less than 10k per person per year. We haven't had any issues financially and our kids don't want for anything...the latest fashions, smartphones, ski trips etc. Affordable housing, free schooling, government stipends of ¥15,000 per month per kid, discount clothing stores, dry goods etc. have made it very much affordable to raise kids in Japan...far more affordable than in my home country, Canada. I don't know if we could afford one kid in Canada let alone 5
@gordonbgraham sorry if this is obvious but I'm not very familiar with Japan, let alone their fiscal policy. What is the Y15k stipend/child for? Thanks for your insight.
@@mikemurphy5898 It’s “child allowance”, meant to incentivize and help support child rearing. I’ve just been informed by my wife that it’s being raised to ¥30,000 a month for the 3rd child and beyond from Oct, 2024.
Have you hear those AI singers? They can replicate human voice very convincingly close to the person...Many dead Artiste were even brought back to life. I think voice acting won't be a problem when AI improves.
@@LagrangePoint0 in the near future, no. Eventually perhaps. I work with this tech on a regular basis and keep up with the research. It would take too long to explain, but replicating voice acting to match animation as opposed to generating emotional sounding speech are two entirely different problems. Basically we will need AGI to get there, meaning we need a system that is more or less conscious and able to have long term memory and planning in order to be a convincing actor.
Don't cut back on pleasures that shorten lifespan. You are in good position to go and be peaceful in the void without knowing what's about to become of humanity.
I am in the same situation as you are, but my take on ChatGPT and other AI is a hope for a fast resolve, not a postponement. - I want AI to take up and eliminate as many jobs as possible, as soon as possible, because I want to know what is left to do, and I want society to adapt to this situation where AI has removed jobs from the market. - It is going to happen, and we should get onboard to push it through as fast as possible. There will be unrest, protests and very likely violence, but any attempt to slow it down, will make the transition longer. War and Famine are on the tables for that scenario.
@@joeswanson733 It'll take atleast a good 15 years for robots to reach that level though. In a world where speculation and the global supply chain is breaking, people will always need food
ur one of those peeps that's played Stardew Valley too much and think you can just toss some seeds in any old dirt and * voila * plump tomatoes out in a few months like magic, enough to feed the entire community. Agriculture is hard work and takes VAST knowledge to pull off.
I would like to learn Japanese from you. I am Mexicano American which I also speak spanish. I been told that spanish to Japanese is much easier way to learn Japanese. Well, if. You can be a teacher. I would love to learn form you. Sensei.. Frank 😅
Be a personal tour guide for people visiting Japan. I want to go, but Japan is an intimidating country to visit, most people there only speak Japanese.
I'm a senior level programmer. Maybe I don't know what I'm talking about but this is what I see. I think AI and robotics has the potential to replace 99% of jobs in the physical and digital space. Some people like to argue that the quality of AI will never beat the quality of humans but I disagree. Like you said in the video, voice AI started off bad but is getting better, and I believe that it won't stop at good, it will become perfect and then go even further. What people who write-off AI like to say is that there will be some sort of wall it hits and that it will plateau, but these people fail to see potential. We can keep improving AI forever. Even if we hit a wall with AI, we will eventually overcome it. People also say that AI is just another technology and that it will create new jobs. I do not believe that to be completely true. If AI takes away jobs, whatever jobs generated from it can also be replaced by AI. This isn't a technology, this is an evolving thing that will keep growing and keep adapting and keep learning. Any current and future jobs that we can do, we can teach AI to do it. So once AI and robotics gets to a point where humans are no longer necessary to generate profits, what is going to happen to the world? We live in a system where we trade our time and skills to get money for things we want. If robots and AI replace most of the jobs, then society has to change or else 99% of us will be poor and useless. Society would have to change to no longer be based only on what generates profit but on something that can only be strictly human. In any case, I don't think we have enough information to really try to be proactive about this. I think we should just hold on to our current jobs and hope that whatever happens in the future is not bad for us lol. I personally hope that AI plateaus in our lifetimes and that we don't have any breakthroughs until after I die lol.
Most governments will only let it go so far. Can't collect taxes from people if they can't make money. The elites know legal loopholes to prevent them from paying that money. Big Daddy government doesn't like it when people mess with his money. It will plateau. The question is will it be willingly or by force? If it's by force the common man will happily help governments do it. They know they have more to gain.
Those robot companies (agility, boston dynamics, apptronic, etc) won't have enough venture capital to stay funded when the wall is hit. They will be useful, but the rate of improvement will be closer to that of today's smartphones at best (maybe worse). Sure things like mobile aloha are surprising, and simulated environments through applications like omniverse work well for zero-shot real world performance; but the amount of edge cases that keep popping up verses the amount of capital needed to overcome them to reach the threshold for mass consumer and corporate adoption is signaling that things aren't looking too good. Corners are continuously being cut, as programmers and engineers are being more overworked. The supply of quality talent to work on those edge cases isn't a large pool to choose from, and the capital needed to keep them employed where they're all located isn't what the venture capitalist are willing to put into the startup. Which leaves a lot of this innovation to be done by large companies who would likely patent it to hell, or lose stockholder confidence and have their workforce cut in half from a round of layoffs. The current and near future economic climate doesn't allow for the current rate of cash burning to end in a usable product, and having humans constantly on site to intervene when there is a problem will cost more than the human and a bit of corporate housing. Unless a new better architecture is built, I don't see auto regressive models actually getting us to the future that is envisioned.
You sir are a mastermind of UA-cam. You have been building a great foundation here. You have discovered a huge niche of simply 'being real' and telling stories. You understand what topics and titles to use, for current issues like AI. I made a video about "Will AI take your job?" 8 months ago and some jobs certainly have gone in that direction now.
real channels like this are very hard to find these days
I feel like he's riding a pity wave
@@RomainQthat’s Japanese humor. He’s a very, though subtly, funny guy.
Keep doing what you're doing. The human touch you bring and add is something Chat GPT will never be able to do. Love your channel.
thanks for your comment.
will never be able to do, yet
@@user-xb7ko5vt4y Cool. IDAF. I ignore AI and prefer the human touch and interaction provided by askjapan.
Don’t worry, your UA-cam channel will grow because people are interested in wonderful Japan. Then you will have a nice side income doing something you love ❤️
How about being an English capable tour guide of Japan? You would be amazed how many foreigners would love to find a proficient English speaking tour guide, giving private tours or small group tours. You can charge in US dollars and all international tourists are armed with USD anyway
all international tourists are armed with USD? what does that mean?
being a tour guide is a great idea.
@@BornToTroll-it5ju when I visited Japan with a Malaysian-Japanese tour guide, she took tips for sure. There's a minimum of $8 per day per person she asked us to contribute as it is for her and the driver. She was upfront about it from the start so no worries, and $8/day is fine
yeah it's a good biz to be in right now actually. I train two officially licensed tour guides here in Kyushu.
It's been popping ever since covid has ended, and both have had to put our class on the backburner due to the overdemand. They get access to most public facilities for free, they get the bigger and better jobs that the govt won't entrust to anyone without the proper licensing, such as guiding vips and celebs, taking people arriving on cruises around Nagasaki and such.
Tbh I don't think the base pay is all that and a bag of potatoes (outrageous for how notoriously difficult it is to get the license) but tipping is allowed and the work comes with a lot of variety and perks. That said, I doubt he'd earn more than he currently gets.
Yes 100%!!!! @Askjapan I would absolutely go on a tour hosted by you!! I will pay for it. My mum and dad (66 and 80 years old) would also be interested. You could make very good money especially because the Japanese yen is weakening so Japan is becoming more accessible (we're Australian so the weakening yen makes AUD go much further in Japan). There would be a huge market for it. Plus you will get to meet lots of new people if you do this!
I lost my job to AI last year.
Specifically, my company transitioned from making software for end users to making AI-assisted tools for other companies, which did not require as many developers.
No wonder Jensen Huang says DO NOT GO INTO CODING anymore. But he didn't say what we should go into....
@@ZxSpectrumplus unloading trucks at your local supermarket.
@@ZxSpectrumplusif ur interested in IT, probably systemintegration for companies or repairing pcs for endconsumers
Developers are still needed just probably not so much for java or JavaScript dev anymore.
@@arsenal_84 oh yep web devs will be the first to go.
Have you considered teaching Japanese online, I feel chat GPT can’t do that and it might be a good way to make some USD.
there are those language learning apps available already
It 100% can. Try it. It's very good even just the 3.5 free version.
@joeswanson733...that no one actually uses when trying to truly learn a language and not just some few words or very basic sentences.
As a person who has been trying to learn Japanese, a tutor/teacher is an essential component in truly grasping the language. Apps are good, don't get me wrong and I have found them more useful than even College classes, but nothing will ever beat human interaction
@@beach2787 exactly. you can't learn a language without speaking to someone. Those apps don't work
Keep going with those videos, I am listening in as a podcast while driving. I enjoy your thoughts on japan.
At that age, traditional, normal career opportunities are slim. So the best thing to do, in my humble opinion, would be to take all your life experience, and however little free time you have, and start some small scale own business, as a part time hobby. A small website selling something, a small virtual consultation company, anything really, even if it just barely brings any income at all. Be your own boss at least few hours per week.
Need more examples of what it could be 😑. But the idea is great!✌🏻
he's clearly good at youtube. he should make some online "course" for weebs and sell it like all the other creators.
consulting is a great idea considering his experience.
Im a designer and do video editing and game dev on the side. All of these will be impacted massively by AI. Im transitioning into trying to sell my art as physical collectables.
I think you have a decent following and community. If i were in your position i would create a series where you take paid guests to interesting spots in Japan, use that footage to build your channel.
About a decade ago I had an audio speech to text transcription job. Now automatic subtitles and transcription are available for free. Technology gives generously with one hand but always takes slightly with the other.
you would think that if we were acting as a collective... AI doing jobs would help anyone by freeing us up. But then you look at the system we have built and you realise. That the more efficient systems are the more the poor go hungry. Late stage capitalism is going to bring people to the brink.
Well, not sure if it will make any difference but myself and many people I know here in New Zealand prefer to speak to an actual person. Appears many countries are having serious economic issues. I am sure you will find your way, it is good to talk things out, thanks for being real in a world that is increasingly becoming fake online.
I wish you all the best. I have subscribed to your channel I hope your channel continues to grow and assist you.
Dollar Milkshake theory: The USD will destroy many foreign economies, not just Japan's.
The "Dollar Milkshake Theory" is a concept popularized by Brent Johnson, CEO of Santiago Capital, which offers a unique perspective on the future dynamics of the global financial system, particularly the role of the U.S. dollar. The theory posits that despite the United States' significant monetary easing and fiscal deficits, the U.S. dollar will strengthen significantly relative to other currencies. This strengthening will occur because, in a crisis, global capital flows into the dollar as a safe haven, effectively "sucking" capital from the rest of the world-like a straw in a milkshake.
This is so refreshing. UA-cam is the right move. When the world embraces AI, go authentic.
Have you considered being a guide for English-speaking tourists? I hope to visit Japan soon, but im scared because I don't speak any Japanese. I have wondered if I could meet up with someone from Japan to help guide me. I have no idea if this would be a viable business model for someone, though.
I work as an animation director and I still hire voice artists on Fiver and human composers/vocal performers. I have no interest in using ai for voice overs, music, writing, art, animation etc.
I think the creatives will mostly be safe. AI can copy at best, they can never generate unique new ideas. I think creation is one thing the AI's can never touch. They can only mimic. No way they're replacing chefs, musicians and artists.
I know how to make drawings (mostly photorealistic portraits), could you give me a job?
That is fine if you have no interest in doing so, but I personally like using AI generated art, and even making money selling it.
@@PWCDNI don’t know man. When the plumber down the street needs a new logo for his business, is he going to hire a graphic designer for a few hundred bucks, or just go on a website and have 100’s of potential logos made for free in 2 minutes, exactly to his liking?
*yet
Hi sir!
I study Japanese myself and i really love to hear your opinion about different thing. I'm also having a lot of concerns about AI in the future. There is a chance I also will be changing job due to those problems.
I wish you all best in your life and career. If you will decide to study Japanese i will be happy to learn from you.
Best wishes! ❤
Yeah, I feel you. I'm teaching English in Japan, but for how much longer?
We all might look different, live different lives and still have the same problems.
I'm in the backend software field and deal with A.I myself so I'd say the best thing to do is find a position unaffected by machine learning or implement machine learning in a way that boost your own productivity but highlight your skills that cannot be replaced to showcase your company can't get rid of you so easily. I myself had to get away from front-end development because that was menial enough to be done by A.I but the machine learning is not intelligent enough to do data structures themselves. This is just like when cotton workers were replaced by cotton-gin and sewing machines in America long ago, people just became sewing machine operators instead of doing it by hand.
No one is not hiring front end devs because they’re instead doing it with AI. You cannot use chat gpt to code unless you yourself know how to code
@@Lazlo-os1pu Not long till it does imo
@@muzammilshareef1951 AI needs to improve a huge huge amount in order for it to be capable of writing code as a production ready level. There also need to be people that understand how and why code works in order to use the AI to build the code. Also, humans are making a logical error in thinking that AI is going to get so much better so fast. Yes there was a huge breakthrough with LLMs in the last few years, but that took years and years to develop. It’s fallacious to assume that AI is going to keep getting better like that in a linear or exponential fashion.
アメリカでも金利の引き下げを望んでいますが、それにはまずインフレが鈍化する必要があります。高金利のため、新しい家を7〜8%の住宅ローンで購入すると、月々の支払いは3000ドルになります。数年前なら、同じ家を2〜3%の住宅ローンで購入した場合、支払い額はそれのほぼ半額で済んでいたかもしれません！金利が下がらないか家の価格が下がらなければ、若者は家を買うことができません。
But aren't higher interest rates and lower prices a good thing on the long-term for the economy?
ChatGPT does not motivate or encourage learners. Real people are far superior teachers.😅
I completely agree!
This aged badly. Check out GPT 4o which launched 2 days ago
for now
That will change fast.
Just wait for the next version...
Hello. Living in Japan 🇯🇵. Thanks for sharing your thoughts about a variety of topics we who live in Japan care. Don’t mean stealing jobs to interpreters and translators?
Trade and vocational schools that teach such skills as plumbing, electrical work etc. is where we're likely to see the biggest growth in as these jobs require hand manipulation (i.e. configuring a pipe that goes through and/or bends around a wall stud) that cannot be easily replicated by AI.
Good point. Practical skills will become more important because desk jobs are gonna become more and more rare.
It can unfortunately yesterday I read a fresh paper about robots now being able to learn by AI with is basically an unprecedented increase in learning and now they have the dexterity to do almost every task. Give it 5 years and its over
yes, "customer service" careers will never die, jobs dealing with people will never be replaced by AI. Most "white collar" jobs will have the biggest risk come AI's maturity. Even some doctors will be replaced (or displaced aka have to spread out to find work). This will be the biggest challenge for intellectual careers most likely. These people get paid the most now and is the most lucrative for employers to replace them with AI. Just a matter of time professors are replaced by AI, if you published a book and is digitized, AI will learn its content and analyse it faster than the speed of light. I'm just hoping I can retire by the time that happens, hopefully doesn't happen soon.
Yet
people are trying but AI seems horrible for research too. Although academia is a small segment of society... I am becoming a part of segment so thats encouraging lol
I've been learning Japanese for 2 years and I'm kinda sad I'll never be able to support myself as a translator. Also when manga/anime/books start getting instant translations to English, reading/watching my favorite content in Japanese will be somewhat pointless.
Of course if I wanted to work/travel to Japan, I would still need it, but since I don't have an opportunity to do so, my effort has been rendered useless.
Of course I will learn the language to fluency, I enjoy the process of learning, but yeah, utility is gone for me.
Yeah you wasted 2 years, Japan is a 3rd world country now. Plus you don't even need the language over there i didn't speak any and smashed many.
Even with fluency you'll still be a filthy gaijin forever lol😂
@@yeahtbh.161 It doesn't bother me as I'm in a country with an even lower standard of living. Also about having 'fun' with Japanese women, I don't care. The only way I could visit Japan is by working or going to graduate school there since I will never be able to justify the expense otherwise.
The reason I started learning Japanese in the first place is because I liked their media and culture. I learned English for the same reason and to this day haven't been to an English speaking country and have only spoken to a couple of English speakers throughout the years.
But yeah I totally get it, you don't wanna live on a sinking ship and having fun doesn't require you to learn the language.
Thanks for replying, best of luck
2 years well spent. A new language opens up a whole new world and culture.
@@eric7964 🤣 a dogshit brainwashed sheep culture yes great
I'm worried too. I hope things will turn out ok in the end...
You’ll be ok. We all gonna make it
universal salary, no problem
it's over man. it's game over
@@vivarantx 😆 🤣 😂
@@vivarantx sounds dystopian af
We need you on Trash Taste as a guest, to have others ask you questions about how you think!
This is a very sad reality, this is similar like Industrial revolution but worse, idk if we can stop the marching with boycott. I'm really sorry to hear that my friend.
Hello, I love watching your video. Maybe you cna teach Japanese on italki since there is a solid market of people trying to learn Japanese from the US. You are right about translation jobs dying a little because of chat GPT. But there will always be Americans trying to learn Japanese. You can make USD pretty quickly because you can speak both Japanese and English very well.
As someone who has a penchant for writing, I like the whole process of coming up with an idea, and formulating the content/article, editing, and the countless revisions and rereading that I have to do until I'm satisfied with my own work, as it is with my published articles. I find that AI-written contents, as shown in the examples I've read, and also based on comments by other people on forums about ChatGPT, are quite bland, and lack personal style, wit, or soul to it. And I find it funny when some people proudly come up with an article written by an AI. Maybe it is useful in other areas, especially when those using it are still learning how to write, it can be quite a good tool to improve one's general grammar, and vocabulary. But writing is an art form, and if it's not done by a human being, then it's not an art that can be credited to that person who formulated it. That being said, I have nothing against AI which is created to make work/life a lot easier in a fast-paced, and only getting faster society as a result of technological advancement, but I'd like to look at it as an AI assistant that helps humans with primarily spelling and grammar, and not the other way around because that would be funny, and completely dumb if AI is in control over a human being lol.
We are enjoying your channel.listening to someone who is normal,and not hyper.💙uk
I'm a technical Japanese to English translator at a large company in Japan. ChatGPT and other AI translation software is not at the point where it will take my job yet. AI software is a big security risk because of the possibility of it leaking sensitive data. It also cannot understand the context of the text or see the relationship between the text and things like images, charts, and diagrams. Sometimes it decides to insert random numbers and letters into sentences which makes checking documents a nightmare. If it ever gets to the point where it will take my job, then it will also render management useless, too. If you're a manager looking to use AI to make a quick profit, just take a minute to think that once AI takes over your employees, then you are no-longer required either.
yet but let see 5 years later, 10 year later
@@sparta007ot Yeh, it's only a matter of time I guess.
@@sparta007otMachine translation has been around for over a decade now and the translation market is still alive and well. ChatGPT translation is no better than Google Translate. Heck, even DeepL is way more advanced than ChatGPT when it comes to translation.
There are also local LLMs that can be used for 100% privacy and control. GPT4 is probably the best right now, but there are some LLMs that are free that are on the top close to it. In the future there will probably be more free LLMs for companies to use if privacy is 100% if it is their concern.
@@sparta007ot I really don't think so. I'm not sure how things will be in decades, but I highly doubt AI will actually grow strong enough to actually understand context in 5 years or so. It will be better at guessing context that is for sure, but actually understand it would require a whole new level of AI which I don't think it will exist so soon.
Evidently AI will take over many jobs and so many of us become redundant and unemployed. Thus that seems a good idea to see if we can synchronise our efforts with AI related jobs. However, the other alternative is to look for professions and jobs that AI is not capable to do yet. The kind of jobs that need lots of handiwork, like cooking, gardening, plumbing, etc. Although we need to be aware that Robotics is speeding up as well. Frankly we don't have much chances nor alternatives to change things and we need to plan well and work harder to secure a better life for our retirement.
The "gig-economy" has been hit hard by AI. I think we are going to see a real demand for jobs that require specialized hands-on skills. Computer centric and digitally dependent jobs are becoming far less sought after with the rise of AI tools. I work in computers and strongly believe that the bulk of the work that I will be expected to do in the coming years will be hardware and physical repair/installation work. So much of what is either software assisted or digitally dependent is being funneled into AI in order to save time and or money.
you are right there is even a special term for it "job disruption". btw in japan they have for example special term for a woman that is beutiful only form back side haha. no other language has that. i know it is quite stressing the chat gpt thing but try not to be depressive about it.
Although the exchange rate prompted your exploration of this topic, it doesn’t change the fact - the ability to deliver real value in the market (regardless of forex rates) is going to be a hard question to answer for all stakeholders in the economy…
The technology is scary. I've played around with Udio and Suno, which do full music with lyrics, and I personally can't tell usually that it's A.I. I think with music it's almost worse because we've adjusted to the idea that people use things like autotune to change their voices. Even the deepfake AI of people talking has gotten good enough I can't normally tell at first glance. I do think that with AI, we're still going to need people to make sure things are accurate, but those jobs won't pay near as well. Maybe you can find me extra work in Japan and I can try to find you work here. Us oldies are staring at a crazy future.
AI has been stealing everything, that i have felt recently
I feel you with the voiceover there are many ai voiceover ai services.
a falling YEN is not all bad ... for instance it makes Japanese products (exports) cheaper which then in turn helps boost economic activity
this is not a problem to think asn individuals. It's an urgent problem that every country will have to solve in the next few months with policies like UBI
Next few months? Diddly squat will happen in the next few months. In three years they will start talking about things and nothing will happen. In 10 years society will look different.
I read that an English speaking tour guide in Japan average salary is $70k USD on average. It would be an interesting way to meet new people also, on a 3 dimensional conscientious way.
thanks for your comment.
Your videos resonated with me. Thank you for sharing.
Gen. AI is a tool. World changing perhaps.
At some level, I would argue that what you (a lot of assumptions...) really do cannot be replaced, yet.
I imagine your core strength to be "connecting". Connecting people to goods/services, people to people.
Your ability to engage emotionally and dig deep to really understand people perhaps can help you reframe the value you provide, which in turn translates into an even more fulfilled life.
Wishing you all the best.
a cheater tool most like ai needs to be stopped next thing we know ai will be in military which it already started and here we go with terminator type world which is really scary
That's nothing compared to what the India Inc staffing companies will do to Japan's jobs if you don't stop them from breaking in. There's now a huge TCS building right next to Tokyo Tower.
Bro, even within TCS people are being fired. Think of the poor middle and upper management/s.
Technology will keep developing. It will never replace the value of human interaction though. Look at how many people are using UA-cam and Instagram and so on. Things are not easy but there will alyways be a way to carry on.
AI in general presents a serious problem for economies all over the world because these AI implements will be instituted all at the same time for corporations who can afford them. Huge chunks of economies will be taken over by AI.
UBI or get ready for mass unrests and civil disorder all over the world. Sadly, I do not believe rich and powerful have enough empathy or good sense to take UBI route.
It was really curious how people thought that language-related jobs would not be replaced any time soon by computers. I mean, Artificial Neural Networks were already a thing many years ago, but with the Transformer concept, it scaled to this really weird technology that can imitate intelligence to the point that it is, in many ways, truly intelligent. I'm not sure what kind of breakthroughs AI companies might come up with, but lately, I've seen some things that made me realize that right now, people have too high expectations and that perhaps there's a wall in front of us soon. Also, I still think that you cannot simply delegate all existential issues to a technology monopolized by corporations. I believe that many aspects of our lives haven't been addressed because corporations have taken control of them, and this may be the gate to open that door to many other aspects of our life. I've seen and believe more in ordinary people who strive for goodness and keep thinking for themselves. Greetings and Thanks for the video!
Auto regressive prediction models aren't intelligent. They are glorified auto complete tied to noise for variable output. Companies like OpenAI have done a great job at fooling investors and the public that it's real intelligence, but that couldn't be further from the case. AGI won't arrive for a good several decades, unfortunately every manager and CEOs now thinks that AI can do another persons job for free. I guess doing a job well doesn't matter when zero competition exist because every startup is running out of that sweet venture capital money.
Yup you're absolutely right - this is the tip of the iceberg as well.
it helped me get my job man I used it to type emails to hiring managers saved a lot of time
I get u brother. I got laid off as well, my former company partnered up with openAi. Nobody will have a job( at least 80%) in 10-15 years. We will get UBI and will have to find a new identity
Your job should never be your identity
@@autosativa it’s easy to say, but imagine you have studied for a decade and have called yourself “ xxx” your whole life. It’s the reality for many
If 80%of working population will be replaced by ai who will pay taxes and buy products produced by it?
@@user-ft5kh5um1rcompanies would of course be taxed in some way
@@user-ft5kh5um1r the robots will be taxed and wealth distribution would be UBI. Worldcoin exist , it’s Sam altmans crypto, you get a certain amount each month ( yesterday I got 16 euro). It’s not much but it helps with a little food. When I got laid off I couldn’t pay my rent and I sold by accumulated worldcoin and paid my rent and got one month worth of food..
Right now, AI can also create realistic backgrounds and videos of people talking...in fact, you cannot tell that the person talking in the video is AI or real. It is that good. So, this also means that newscasters, actors and vloggers can be replaced by AI. You already have hololive or anime style streamers...but this is where someone can make instant movies with realistic looking actors and backgrounds but it is ALL generated by AI. However, evenso, as a human, I prefer to watch what I assume is a real human. I newly subbed to your channel. You can probably do consultations for business and editing of materials that have been translated by ChatGPT. Or, if you can figure out a problem to solve, people will pay you for solving that problem. For example, in Japan, I wonder if there is a problem with population growth and therefore more and more people are aging. A major issue then is who will end up caring for elderly people? There doesn't seem to be enough people to sustain the system. So, my understanding is that Japan is trying to increase the use of robotics and self sufficient stores and hotels. Trying to make robots for elder care and companionship. I guess robotics is a rising work area? But, I think most people would prefer real people, maybe? So, is there some manner you can address that situation? There was one business in Japan which rents families or grandmas or husbands or whatever family you need. It seems to be addressing that sometimes people need to have someone available for social situations but they are isolated or lonely or can't talk to their real family. Then there is something called "Evergreen" jobs...these jobs will always be necessary. The care and disposing of the dead, healthcare, water cleaning, elder care, food....in many ways, those can be taken over by AI or robots. In production, robots are becoming more used and so less workers are needed. But they still need some to handle the robots. Healthcare? More and more robots and being used so maybe eventually doctors will be replaced. Phone sales will be taken over by AI. Even marketing strategies can probably be done by AI but still I think most humans wish to handle transactions and deals between people. I wonder if you are noticing in marketing and business if this is still true?
you have a big internet following. you could be a tour guide for americans visiting who want to see japan how you do
It is inevitable. Resistance is Futile. Frankly. i have no ideas what future careers for my kid to take. Seems everything will be taken over by AI eventually and robots dexterity is getting better and better and most jobs can and will be taken over. Everyone's expandable. Maybe only highly skill jobs like surgeons will be still out of reach for the immediate and near future.
This is very well articulated
I personally think virtually every tutoring job should already be replaced. If someone is being hired as a tutor they are probably acting as more of a babysitter or a motivational coach.
I would take Japanese lessons from you. Thank you.
I second that
8 months ago I wanted to do transcription work but discovered that AI had already replaced the beginner transcription workers. So I decided to make a video for youtube instead.
Why dont you open up an international marketing consultancy? You could take you knowlege of english and chatgpt and help companies utilize it. You can also provide some level of quality check. Many companies in japan might not be comfortable with using such a new technology yet, and you could help them transition to using it
Nice idea. The early entry would get bigger benefit
If you want to make extra money you might look into options about teaching Japanese, I think it is getting more popular as a language. As for GPT stealing all jobs, I work as programmer, there is no way it can steal anything right now, I can't even use it tried, most of the time it gives wrong stuff and then I lose too much time trying to find what the issue was, not thinking it would be the "AI code" that is supposed to be correct but isn't. I basically only use it to "interrogate" it when I am starting to use a new technology then I don't bother at all.
Thanks for your comment
Don't feel too comfy. It probably can't do a proper code now...but once everything's integrated with the development platofrm and compilers and licensing issues and AI has improves, it will take over coding....Jensen Huang already said this. And yes, coding is my background. If you gave clear instructions to ChatGPT it can actually generate some decent code with at least the basic logic in place. And it's done in a few seconds....faster than i ever could generate so many pages of code in just a few seconds. I can't even type that fast.
automatic translation has done a good job in translating Japanese, only 2 years ago it was not very effective, but currently the translation is almost perfect, there are still some hiccups but it works pretty well in 80% of cases.
However, Japanese rarely uses personal pronouns and the context has an important role in the translation, so human intervention is required to refine the translation.
What you are seeing with AI is just the beginning. Saying please won’t stop the momentum behind this massive disrupter tech. Best you find a new income source.
True, thanks
I feel that people must start learning how to prompt AI now, because it's a very powerful tool. Those who don't learn it, will become irrelevant. I do believe that some people will lose their jobs because you will not need 5 people to output the same amount as 1-2 people + GPT/AI tools.
ai needs to be stopped
Keep posting on UA-cam, your videos are great and could make you some money
I'm curious to know how much of you're thinking you do in Japanese and how much of it (If any) you do you English?
If anything those systems will become 10x+ stronger and smarter in next few years...
Maybe yes, but maybe not. There are some theories that AI has peaked already because all of the data available has been "used up" and still AI is creating data which can't be trained upon. Search for the Computerphile channel and look for the video on AI.
I work in the NLP field which is where chatGPT stems from. Treat chatGPT as you would the Internet. Yes, it will destroy many jobs but it will also create many more. Do yourself a favor and adapt.
Please make a asmr video your voice would be so good for it!!!
I mostly watch him for the Asmr too!
New subscriber to your channel, but it would be interesting to see you play more video games 🎮
Any job that requires knowledge of data which exists in vasts amounts will be replaced.
Thank you for your content!
If you can do sales you can make money.
In the rich part of the US I live in, manual laborer handymen, putzing around in their silly pickup trucks, make $200k/yr because white collar trust fund kids are so lazy here. In Cali, UPS drivers are making 150k/yr. I knew a 50 yo Tibetan local UPS driver who owned 2 houses and was renting one out and recently got a 20 yo wife.
Wow
@@askjapan9669 lol ...either way, I like your show and admire Japanese culture
You should still offer the voice over because some people want to have a real human voice
Hey man! i think youtube is a good opportunity for you. What you are doing now is great, but imagine if you started increasing the quality/editing and putting a lot of effort into it. You could make millions
Edit: I think he should still do these kind of videos but he might find quicker success with edited videos. Ive had friends make huge amount of money off youtube and experimented with it myself, it would be really good money, especially in japan
No. The raw , real essence of his videos is priceless.
yeah spend a bunch of time and money making content for youtube :l
I don't think UA-cam is so great as it used to be. People with millions of subs may struggle to make a living.
@@change2023now You like it raw don't ya?
Use gpt at your favor
Even if the machine learning tool is good, it is not perfect
A revision using a real native person is something good
I used to work for a company this year where we had to make revision for the machine
Not every time it is perfect
The Japanese infrastructure is great for what is being spent to the quality of services. So if US people a lot of them have big interest in Japan so if there is a way to provide Japanese services like idk IT services or a dental work or education to the US people where they spend money in Japan then that could be a business or service of quality people around the world not only the US would be interested in.
Japan can afford the infrastructure for that because their cities aren't drowning in debt from low density housing developments. Every square meter (or acre) of gas, sewage, internet, and electricity needs to be maintained from a portion of the taxes of those who live in the area. They also need to help pay for services (like police and fire department). When you do the math, all American suburbs are in the negatives, which neighboring cities have to help subsidize. Now those cities can't afford to add more services, and are forced to crumble along with the suburbs they're helping.
You would think the local governments would build higher density housing, and allow for small businesses to be built next to houses to increase the tax revenue per acre right?? Nope, they instead build more suburbs and use those funds from the new suburbs to finance the maintenance of the old suburbs, because if they build higher density housing it would lower the prices of real estate in the area which makes rich people not happy since their net-worth and investments are tied to those prices.
I wonder which ones they'll run out of first, space or money, I guess we'll just have to see.
I wouldn't truat CHat GPT to translate something that I was actually going to use for business purposes in Japan.
If your can get replaced by a machine then you need to find another job.
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People clamouring for immigration to solve Japan's declining birth rate should consider the fact that 50% of current jobs will have been made obsolete by AI and mass-automation within the next 20 years
Having child in japan cost too much, even foreigner wont change anything, society need to change
@@sparta007ot My wife and I have raised 5 kids in Japan with my wife staying home to raise the kids and on my salary alone. I make 60k a year...that's less than 10k a year per person per year.
We've raised 5 kids in Japan on my salary alone with my wife staying home to take care of the kids. I make 60k a year. That's less than 10k per person per year. We haven't had any issues financially and our kids don't want for anything...the latest fashions, smartphones, ski trips etc. Affordable housing, free schooling, government stipends of ¥15,000 per month per kid, discount clothing stores, dry goods etc. have made it very much affordable to raise kids in Japan...far more affordable than in my home country, Canada. I don't know if we could afford one kid in Canada let alone 5
@gordonbgraham sorry if this is obvious but I'm not very familiar with Japan, let alone their fiscal policy. What is the Y15k stipend/child for? Thanks for your insight.
@@mikemurphy5898 It’s “child allowance”, meant to incentivize and help support child rearing. I’ve just been informed by my wife that it’s being raised to ¥30,000 a month for the 3rd child and beyond from Oct, 2024.
I think voice acting will still be a domain for human beings. But language teacher and basic voice over is pretty much the realm of the machines
AI voice makes that questionable. The SpongeBob rap is proof of that.
Have you hear those AI singers? They can replicate human voice very convincingly close to the person...Many dead Artiste were even brought back to life. I think voice acting won't be a problem when AI improves.
Voice acting could be replaced easily by AI, it already can generate really convincing voice and music.
@@LagrangePoint0 in the near future, no. Eventually perhaps. I work with this tech on a regular basis and keep up with the research. It would take too long to explain, but replicating voice acting to match animation as opposed to generating emotional sounding speech are two entirely different problems. Basically we will need AGI to get there, meaning we need a system that is more or less conscious and able to have long term memory and planning in order to be a convincing actor.
if you think the YEN is doomed, open a brokerage account and keep buying USD or EUR or (even better) CHF with your savings.
lol what? Both USD and EUR are absolutely doomed beyond measure.
He should buy Singapore dollars instead.
Damn it, i even deleted it for you, hope you find a good way out of this terrifying sutuation
I had to google this ap because I'm old. This will only make folks even more useless than they already are.
Don't cut back on pleasures that shorten lifespan. You are in good position to go and be peaceful in the void without knowing what's about to become of humanity.
It is hard to fight innovation. Better to utilize it to our advantage as much as possible.
it would be nice if it all slowed down
your good at talking though you should try to do you tube for a living I could easily see you making a living off of this man your chill to listen to
I think even technology should get limits especially at social life dont u think?
they're trying to replace us with tech....
I am in the same situation as you are, but my take on ChatGPT and other AI is a hope for a fast resolve, not a postponement. - I want AI to take up and eliminate as many jobs as possible, as soon as possible, because I want to know what is left to do, and I want society to adapt to this situation where AI has removed jobs from the market. - It is going to happen, and we should get onboard to push it through as fast as possible. There will be unrest, protests and very likely violence, but any attempt to slow it down, will make the transition longer. War and Famine are on the tables for that scenario.
This is why you should consider in investing in “globally diversified assets” and not have your entire networth based in yen.
We will all be pain free very soon
Sell your house, move to Inaka. Houses are cheap, you can live off the land and sell what you grow, AI can’t take that away.
The last sentence sound refreshing ❤
for now...
As of right now, AI is making its way to Inaka. Thanks to your comment.
@@joeswanson733 It'll take atleast a good 15 years for robots to reach that level though. In a world where speculation and the global supply chain is breaking, people will always need food
ur one of those peeps that's played Stardew Valley too much and think you can just toss some seeds in any old dirt and * voila * plump tomatoes out in a few months like magic, enough to feed the entire community.
Agriculture is hard work and takes VAST knowledge to pull off.
AI is useful for those that can't get partners or collaborators to help them with startups.
thanks for your comment.
sadly the genie is out of the bottle
At least the cat is not out of the bag yet, so there’s still a chance.
More like the Pandora's box is opened.
I would like to learn Japanese from you. I am Mexicano American which I also speak spanish. I been told that spanish to Japanese is much easier way to learn Japanese. Well, if. You can be a teacher. I would love to learn form you. Sensei.. Frank 😅
Ni en pedo wey que el japones es mas facil cuando eres hispano-hablante
Cows, pigs, chickens and a nice plot of land: that's how you weather crises. Eggs are a great currency.
Wow
Be a personal tour guide for people visiting Japan. I want to go, but Japan is an intimidating country to visit, most people there only speak Japanese.
thanks for your comment.
You can only adapt.
There are even AI anime art too.
Your channel can hopefully help you a bit with revenue
Greetings from America
I'm a senior level programmer. Maybe I don't know what I'm talking about but this is what I see. I think AI and robotics has the potential to replace 99% of jobs in the physical and digital space. Some people like to argue that the quality of AI will never beat the quality of humans but I disagree. Like you said in the video, voice AI started off bad but is getting better, and I believe that it won't stop at good, it will become perfect and then go even further.
What people who write-off AI like to say is that there will be some sort of wall it hits and that it will plateau, but these people fail to see potential. We can keep improving AI forever. Even if we hit a wall with AI, we will eventually overcome it. People also say that AI is just another technology and that it will create new jobs. I do not believe that to be completely true. If AI takes away jobs, whatever jobs generated from it can also be replaced by AI. This isn't a technology, this is an evolving thing that will keep growing and keep adapting and keep learning. Any current and future jobs that we can do, we can teach AI to do it.
So once AI and robotics gets to a point where humans are no longer necessary to generate profits, what is going to happen to the world? We live in a system where we trade our time and skills to get money for things we want. If robots and AI replace most of the jobs, then society has to change or else 99% of us will be poor and useless. Society would have to change to no longer be based only on what generates profit but on something that can only be strictly human.
In any case, I don't think we have enough information to really try to be proactive about this. I think we should just hold on to our current jobs and hope that whatever happens in the future is not bad for us lol. I personally hope that AI plateaus in our lifetimes and that we don't have any breakthroughs until after I die lol.
one thing people forget is... it doesnt have to be perfect... it just needs to be better than you. :( that's enough for companies to pile into it.
Most governments will only let it go so far. Can't collect taxes from people if they can't make money. The elites know legal loopholes to prevent them from paying that money. Big Daddy government doesn't like it when people mess with his money. It will plateau. The question is will it be willingly or by force? If it's by force the common man will happily help governments do it. They know they have more to gain.
@@joeswanson733 Not even better than you. Just "acceptable".
Probably we are going to accept true communism .
Those robot companies (agility, boston dynamics, apptronic, etc) won't have enough venture capital to stay funded when the wall is hit. They will be useful, but the rate of improvement will be closer to that of today's smartphones at best (maybe worse). Sure things like mobile aloha are surprising, and simulated environments through applications like omniverse work well for zero-shot real world performance; but the amount of edge cases that keep popping up verses the amount of capital needed to overcome them to reach the threshold for mass consumer and corporate adoption is signaling that things aren't looking too good. Corners are continuously being cut, as programmers and engineers are being more overworked. The supply of quality talent to work on those edge cases isn't a large pool to choose from, and the capital needed to keep them employed where they're all located isn't what the venture capitalist are willing to put into the startup. Which leaves a lot of this innovation to be done by large companies who would likely patent it to hell, or lose stockholder confidence and have their workforce cut in half from a round of layoffs. The current and near future economic climate doesn't allow for the current rate of cash burning to end in a usable product, and having humans constantly on site to intervene when there is a problem will cost more than the human and a bit of corporate housing.
Unless a new better architecture is built, I don't see auto regressive models actually getting us to the future that is envisioned.
Nice video