In an age when AI handles translation and writing, an economist studying a society with a declining population considers what important capabilities will remain with humans, using the differences between English and Japanese as a guide. This article is excerpted and edited from a work by Hiroshi Yoshida (吉田 浩).
In considering the era in which AI handles translation and writing, the author asks what important capabilities will remain with humans. He first organizes the differences between machine and human writing, using the structural and expressive differences between English and Japanese as a guide.
From the perspective of Hiroshi Yoshida (吉田 浩), an economist at Tohoku University who studies societies with declining populations, the article explores the relationship between the functions of language and social context, and also touches on the limitations of AI-powered translation and generation.
This article is excerpted and edited from Hiroshi Yoshida (吉田 浩)'s The Day Everyone in Japan Becomes Sato and is presented to readers as a summary of the original work's arguments.