The path that humankind should aim for in the future is a society where labor is left to machines that take the place of ancient slaves, and human beings live a rich life while enjoying learning, sports, and hobbies, like the citizens of ancient Greece and Rome. is.

A country that missed a ride becomes a developing country

 Which future will be realized is a national issue.But unfortunately, Japan is far behind.Large American companies such as Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and IBM are spending a total of about 1 trillion yen annually to realize super-intelligence. EU's "Human Brain Project" * 10 is 1600 billion yen in 2 years.The US Government's "Brain Initiative Plan" * 100 will invest more than 3 billion yen annually.On the other hand, Japan was poor at 10 billion yen in 1 years.Even one Google company has lost.Large American companies: Western governments: Japan = 1000: 100: 1.You can't win with this.This year, the Ministry of Education applied for a budget of 100 billion yen, but it is still 100 to 1.Japan will sink as it is.

 Civilization is made up of things, energy, and information, but in ancient and medieval civilizations, the superiority or inferiority was determined by the substances that could be possessed. It can be said that the Industrial Revolution occurred 250 years ago, the energy revolution occurred, and the information revolution occurred.A country that once succeeded in the Industrial Revolution has become a developed country in the world.Similarly, in the Second Industrial Revolution, the countries that ride on it will become developed countries, and the countries that miss it will become developing countries.

Singularity technology from Japan

 Even if my budget is limited, I host a "Singularity Talking Party" to bring about a technological revolution from Japan, and I am working to bring together "petit geniuses" in Japan.It is estimated that about 1% (0.01 people) of the Japanese population of 1 million people have petit geniuses, and if you gather them and gather your wisdom, you should be able to do various things.

 Motoaki Saito, the speaker from the previous lecture, is about to turn from a doctor to develop an exascale computer (a computer with 2011 times the capacity of the world's No. 1 "K computer" in 100) * 3 by 2020. increase.The computer he designs is immersed in a liquid, unlike a normal air-cooled supercomputer.With low power consumption and performance per watt, it dominated the world's second place last year and the first to third place this year.

 In addition, we are envisioning a computer that imitates the human brain, and we are trying to create a machine with 100 billion computational cores and 100 trillion interconnects that imitates 100 billion neurons and 100 trillion synapses in the cerebrum.When completed, its computational power is not comparable to that of the human brain.Computers are more than 1000 million times faster.

Water-cooled supercomputer developed by Motoaki Saito

Water-cooled supercomputer developed by Motoaki Saito

 

Young people are the protagonists of the turbulent times

 At the end of the Edo period and during the Meiji Restoration, there were dozens or hundreds of scholars of the Meiji Restoration.Heroes were produced even during the Warring States period.Similar human resources must have existed in other times, but in the world of Taihei, they were orderly and restrained.

 There is still order now, but in the meantime, the black ship of the economic crisis will come and it will be a big mess.Just as the shoguns, officials, and daimyo were not very useful during the turmoil at the end of the Tokugawa shogunate, we cannot expect much from governments, bureaucrats, and large corporations during the upcoming turmoil.When the authority of the times is ruined, it is always the young people who play an active role.I will run with young people too.

* 1 A project to reproduce the human brain with a supercomputer
* 2 A project to thoroughly elucidate the function of the human brain
* 3 Exa is 10 to the 18th power (100 kyo). A computer that can perform 1K floating-point arithmetic operations per second.

 
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Professor Emeritus, Kobe University
Professor Takuya Matsuda
Born in 1943.Doctor of Science.Professor Emeritus of Kobe University, Vice President of NPO Ainshutai, Researcher of Nakanoshima Institute of Science.Completed the doctoral program at the Second Department of Physics, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University.
He has served as an assistant professor of aeronautical engineering at the Faculty of Engineering, Kyoto University, a professor at the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at the Faculty of Science, Kobe University, a visiting professor at the National Astronomical Observatory, and a chairman of the Japan Astronomical Society. Having a sense of crisis about the 2045 problem, he will host a "Singularity Talking Party" to raise singularity from Japan.
His books include "The 2045 Problem Computers Beyond Mankind" (Kosaido Shinsho), "Positive and Negative Utopia: A Study of the Future of Mankind" (Iwanami Shoten), "The Future Cosmology: Space, Black Holes, and Intelligence" (Kodansha Blue Bucks) etc.
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