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Rick Kobayashi suggests Japanese animation featuring robots, such as Doraemon, makes people comfortable with chatbots.
“there are lots of, say, robot, or some of the say animations, which specify some of the AI or robot technologies. And, you know, Doraemon, or there are lots of animation over there.”
Rick Kobayashi says Japan takes a soft approach to AI governance, relying on guidance rather than strict regulation.
“So they say that a soft approach, so there is no strict say regulation in Japan, but there are lots of kind of guidance in Japan.”
Kenny Song previously worked at Google Brain on the TensorFlow team, according to Rick Kobayashi.
“Kenny is worked in, uh, uh, Google brains, and he was one of the core member of the TensorFlow team.”
Rick Kobayashi says banks, insurers and securities firms are among Citadel AI's largest customers in Japan and are aggressively adopting LLM applications.
“One of the largest customers in in in Japan is the financial industry, surprisingly so, like banks or insurance companies or security companies are very aggressive to introduce LLM applications into their core operations.”
Rick Kobayashi says Japan's financial firms are already bound by traditional financial regulation, which raises the stakes of AI misbehavior.
“So because those financial industry is governed by the the government itself, so in that sense, different from regulation related AI, they have already been kind of regulated by traditional, uh, say, financial regulations.”
Citadel AI is merging the features of Citadel Radar into Citadel Lens so one product provides both testing and monitoring.
“now we are say merging radar UH features into lens, so lens can provide both testing function and the monitoring functions together at this stage.”
Rick Kobayashi refers to ChatGPT-5 as having recently been released at the time of recording.
“yeah, now the Chatgpt five is released.”