Artificial intelligence: A Far East perspective

摘要

Today the world's fastest economic growth area is in the Far East. Besides Japan, the four Small Dragons of Asia; Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan are achieving very outstanding results in industry and trade. Their large foreign incomes will enable them to carry out substantial technology development programmes. An AI programme is certainly a possible candidate, considering Japan's Fifth Generation Project. This paper surveys the backgrounds of these Dragons from many perspectives: economical, cultural, political, historical ... and speculates on the future roles which AI may play in these nations. China, which has so many ties with these Dragons is also included in the discussion.