Japan is one of the countries that has been the fastest to embrace the use of new artificial intelligence tools and has the potential to accelerate its economy and technology sector by going further, said Microsoft Japan President Miki Tsusaka.
The country’s digitalization drive gained momentum during the pandemic as companies adapted to new work-from-home arrangements, and Tsusaka believes Japan has made up lost ground after previously being a laggard.
“The Japanese have caught up. And I think it will continue to accelerate at this point because technology is making things possible that we haven’t been able to do yet,” Tsusaka said in an interview. “We don’t have enough people, our population is aging, and yet generative AI has the power to accelerate growth.”
