Tanimoto Yuka (谷本有香) pointed out that Japanese companies have yet to fully embrace the era of AI transformation. Although the use of AI is spreading, it has not yet led to reform of core businesses or organizational transformation.
There is AI-related news almost every day, but in response to the question of whether Japanese companies are riding the wave of the AI era, Forbes JAPAN’s Tanimoto Yuka (谷本有香) described the current situation as follows: “The use of AI is advancing, but we have not yet reached AI transformation.” Although adoption is progressing at the individual and corporate levels, companies have yet to make the kind of shift that would significantly change their core businesses.
Tanimoto Yuka (谷本有香) pointed out that efficiency gains, such as using AI to handle conventional tasks, are advancing, but that reforms on the level of “eliminating human involvement and creating new innovation,” as in fully automating factories with AI, are not currently envisaged. She said that the practical challenge is to use AI in a way that allows it to coexist with people.
More specifically, while transforming factories that have previously operated entirely with human labor through full AI adoption was cited as the ideal, many operations currently cannot function without people, and significant challenges remain before companies can shift to entrusting operations entirely to AI. Going forward, the key is likely to be how companies move from partially entrusting tasks to AI to changing the structure of their core businesses themselves.
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