At the end of last year, a conference was convened here in Kyoto. It concerned a group with which I have ties. It was my brief to deliver the opening address. I worked hard to prepare something of interest, and I had the audience laughing and clapping. I am reluctant to boast, but I was happy with the way it all turned out.<\/p>\r\n
Afterwards, a bureaucrat from a central government ministry gave an address. It did not animate the audience, but I thought it was a fine, balanced speech.<\/p>\r\n
The bureaucrat later told me that he had employed AI as his speech writer, and had simply then used what it came up with. \u201cAI could never come up with a speech structured like yours, Professor Inoue,\u201d he said. \u201cYour speech was dissonant in the extreme, and yet you still managed to lighten the mood. I was impressed.\u201d<\/p>\r\n
If this were the opinion of a Kyoto-ite, I would not take it seriously. I would probably look for some irony beneath the surface. But I believe that this bureaucrat was sincere in the appreciation he bestowed on me. May I continue to produce work of a sort that AI can never aspire to. I am glad to have been re-affirmed in this.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":2200,"template":"","message_category":[23],"class_list":["post-2199","messages","type-messages","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","message_category-serialization-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.nichibun.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/messages\/2199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.nichibun.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/messages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.nichibun.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/messages"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.nichibun.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.nichibun.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"message_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.nichibun.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/message_category?post=2199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}