President of NEC in Japan: we are developing generative AI independently, which is a very great business opportunity.

CTOnews.com June 7, according to Japan's Yomiuri Shimbun, NEC president Takashi Morita said in an online interview that he is quite optimistic about the prospect of generative AI: "I think this is a very big business opportunity." At the same time, he also revealed that NEC is developing its own generative AI service independently.

Morita stressed that the social impact of generative AI is comparable to the emergence of the Internet, and that this technology has a variety of commercial possibilities. He also confirmed that NEC will promote the research and development of generative AI technology for specific business and purposes, and said that at present, many products are learned in an English environment and there will be a lot of errors in Japanese Q & A, while NEC is developing technologies and services that can be safely used in the Japanese environment.

On the other hand, Morita also believes that the pattern of collecting information and creating documents and images on the Internet makes generative AI a copyright risk. So he acknowledges that generative AI is not suitable for use in all cases unless the problem is eradicated.

According to CTOnews.com 's previous report, a number of Japanese companies, including Softbank Corp., have joined the research and development of generative AI. Since May, NEC has introduced conversational AI service ChatGPT internally to verify the technical and commercial feasibility of generated AI.