A dual Japanese and English keyboard. Credit: SOURCENEXT The nature of the Japanese language presents fascinating challenges to the development of artificial intelligence. By Christopher Harding A favourite tourist board cliché about Japan has long been that it’s the place where tradition and refinement meets high technology. Visitors taking the so-called Golden Route in Japan fly into Tokyo and are transported from a hyper-modern megalopolis via futuristic-feeling shinkansen trains to the ancient shrines and temples of Kyoto. But the shinkansen started out as 1960s technology, as for the most part did Japan’s ubiquitous vending machines. Yes, there is something about … Continue reading Japan’s LLM language barrier