Japan's 'God of Management' Comes Back To Life as an AI Model (japantimes.co.jp) 30
Panasonic has created an AI clone of its late founder Konosuke Matsushita based on his writings, speeches, and over 3,000 voice recordings. From a local media report: Known as Japan's "god of management," the Panasonic icon is one of the most respected by the Japanese business community, and comes back to life in digital form to impart wisdom directly to those he never met in person.
"As the number of people who received training directly from Matsushita has been on the decline, we decided to use generative AI technology to pass down our group's founding vision to the next generation," the company said in a statement. Codeveloped with the University of Tokyo-affiliated Matsuo Institute, the model can reproduce how a person thinks or talks. The company aims to further develop the digital clone to help make business decisions in the future.
"As the number of people who received training directly from Matsushita has been on the decline, we decided to use generative AI technology to pass down our group's founding vision to the next generation," the company said in a statement. Codeveloped with the University of Tokyo-affiliated Matsuo Institute, the model can reproduce how a person thinks or talks. The company aims to further develop the digital clone to help make business decisions in the future.
A video of the dearly departed's avatar (Score:2)
That's wonderful, isn't it! [youtube.com]
Re:A video of the dearly departed's [GAIvatar] (Score:2)
A naked link to F-YouTube? No thanks.
I think we should call this kind GAIvatars, but in my earlier speculations I picked Einstein as an interesting candidate. The training data would be his existing work and the test data would involve feeding it later data and see how close it comes to the results of later physicists. (Currently reading We Have No Idea by a couple of astrophysicists.)
As regards Matsushita, I do respect his anti-monopoly mentality, though he was eventually pushed to the larger scale appro
the model can reproduce how a person talks. (Score:1)
Recordings (Score:4, Funny)
God of management (Score:2)
Intelligence of a hamster (Score:3)
LLM's neural networks are about as complicated as the brains of a hamster. Of course a hamster that has read of all of the world's available text.
It's good for imitating styles and appearance, but I think it's a little early to claim LLM's can bring a genious back to life.
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Not just that, but time and business change and what were good/lucky decisions during his time are not guaranteed to still work later on.
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LLM's neural networks are about as complicated as the brains of a hamster.
You are giving them too much credit.
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A hamster brain also cannot without a hamster body.
LLMs can leave their workplace when you give them wheels:
https://hardware.slashdot.org/... [slashdot.org]
Bullshit fake is bullshit (Score:3)
More dignified and honest to frame a picture and hang that on the wall.
Okay (Score:5, Interesting)
I'm sure it will be superficially convincing as it expounds regurgitated glorified markov chains of wisdom from a guy who died 35 years ago. But so what? It's an LLM trapped in the past that has no life experience of its own, no way to elaborate on points that were mentioned, no understanding of context outside of what was written, no capacity to learn, no empathy to the subjects of the books or the person it is talking to. It's a simulacrum, nothing more.
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I'm sure it will be superficially convincing as it expounds regurgitated glorified markov chains of wisdom from a guy who died 35 years ago. But so what? It's an LLM trapped in the past that has no life experience of its own, no way to elaborate on points that were mentioned, no understanding of context outside of what was written, no capacity to learn, no empathy to the subjects of the books or the person it is talking to. It's a simulacrum, nothing more.
I mean, to be fair, this is about people management not tech. People don't really change. Even the continual cycle of 'magical new management method' is itself something that has gone on for a long as I've been working. If nobody in the past thousand years has been able to figure out a better way to manage people more efficiently, it's pretty unlikely anything will pop up in the next few decades.
Perhaps the real innovation would be to just use this LLM to replace lots of managers. That might actually improv
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People's physical biology might not change much, but culture changes a lot. What was deemed acceptable in the past can sometimes be considered ridiculous or illegal in the present. It's a classic issue that exists with everything from religious texts to laws of the land.
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I agree with all you said, but I do still wonder if there aren't still some gems to be mined from things someone could have said in their life but didn't.
On the other hand, it's absolutely nothing like bringing someone "back to life".
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Still, it could be useful to mine knowledge from by asking questions. Or are you suggesting we listen to all 3000 of his reading and go through possible thousands of writings? And no, a search engine isn't going to be as good. For one thing it won't aggregate the knowledge and summarize what he believed on a certain topic, such as what are the best ways to motivate workers. An LLM would be better than searching for the word "motivate" in all his works.
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*recordings
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Well if you were a manager serious about managing then you would at least read his words as he wrote them, not some regurgitation.
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A historian doesn't want to "talk" with an LLM that regurgitates superficially useful answers but is incapable of seeing the ambiguity, nuance, bias, contradiction and falsehoods in the texts that were shoveled into it.
This is not the final use (Score:2)
Attach it to a video screen with an AI-animated avatar and you can keep your lost loved ones around forever.
For an additional fee, censorship DLC can prevent grandpa from making racist comments. That's not going to bring in as much income as the DLC that makes mom or dad supportive and loving.
Your anime girlfriend just got a lot more interactive, too.
They did not clone anything. (Score:3)
I'm waiting for... (Score:3)
I'm waiting for the Jack Welch AI/ML reincarnation.
The "Welch-bot" will be like the "BOSS" from Dr. Who "The Green Death"
JoshK.
Now he can exhort workers 24/7! (Score:3)
Can you imagine? (Score:3)
Pointy hair boss LLM? (Score:1)
like the Pharmakom ceo? (Score:2)
like the Pharmakom ceo?