Kanji&Coffee
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Kanji&Coffee
AI | JAP/ENG Bilingual Friends 語 #7
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This is our unscripted conversation format where we chat naturally and switch between Japanese and English in real time. Whenever one of us speaks, we repeat the same idea in the other language and if we make mistakes, we correct each other on the spot.
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In this episode, we talk about AI.
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Welcome to Kanjian Coffee, your bilingual coffee break.
SPEAKER_00AI needs. AI. Alright. Come by. Come by.
SPEAKER_01AI, so I uh recently heard the news that the Pentagon is uh or used AI for the war. Naga Taking Kitanwa Pentagonga AI Sensono Tamini Scott Diru Ki Kamoshi and I Sono AI donne a witch AI it was I think Claude you know Claude? Hmm Claude Tatano and uh interesting part is that the owners of Claude, the company, said we don't like that you're using Claude for the war. Microsoft. So what is Kija? They cancelled the contract. Maybe United States and the company had a contract. So no Kika cancelled Nina Chat.
SPEAKER_00So then.
SPEAKER_01So I think now they are changing to open AI, Chat GPT, Naka ima tabum open AI ni Kavalu Kamuchi, so done it.
SPEAKER_00I have here like a the crowd a cloud crowd top uh the boss didn't want to involve the war with AI. So the day I know counselor startup Joe Nanka Holy So Titana, no cheetah. I have here that then after uh Donald Trump got angry and then he started to trying to make a new role or s something and then to force them to uh help America.
SPEAKER_01Do you personally use any AI amber and no? Jibun ano a jiboon.
SPEAKER_00Hi, uh I re using AI recently.
SPEAKER_01For what example Tato nano time it's got?
SPEAKER_00So done Tato Nani got shirabilitokini uh no Machoto Musachi dayono mono sirabertokini, it's AI ni key techana. Sometimes like when I want to uh research some of the difficult situation or like some difficult information in the internet, I use the AI to ask them.
SPEAKER_01Ah same, me too, yeah.
SPEAKER_00I know ego no list, it's good the ego seriously. So no listo AI needs to water stuff.
SPEAKER_01Ah, nice.
SPEAKER_00I have the my passari uh YouTube channel and in that YouTube channel I use the Japanese list, wild list, and I asked AI to make that list to for my YouTube.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, it's good, yeah. I personally recently I used it to optimize my workout routine.skatino tame, how can I say it? Psyking A ska Mukteki? Mokteki Psykin AI is go muktikiwa ano kintore no do teen Optimize routine to control or optimize the routine. Optimize generi. What do you mean optimize? Ah optimize is to make perfect kind of like fast this then this then this. Ah here I have one more minute time so I can do this. Optimize the ka make perfect.
SPEAKER_00Ah say this optimize say this.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, kind of mm get the maximum performance. Optimize what? Maximum performance to get. Saidai Kasiru to Saidai Kasiru So no Ruti no Saida Kishtakata. Saidaika. Said aika. Saidaika noun, verb, and wistus.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, Saidai Kawa is a good thing. Saidai kat managa maximized.
SPEAKER_01So Lutino Saidaka. Saidaiika.
SPEAKER_00Sudamini AI Otska. Sudamini A. Hmm Nar Hodon Ma AI Mosona Kido Sai King Sugo Big Sanoa. Not only the AI, what I am I surprised thing recently is on Takasani. So be goodish master. I really surprised about the quality of Antinha. Voice interface two. Voice How do you say I I say something and the PC recognized that other typing letter or something?
SPEAKER_01By voice recognition. You said recognize voice recognition.
SPEAKER_00Voice recognition, yeah. That's very high quality, right?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I agree.
SPEAKER_00Tata uh I didn't need to take it. I say like a lot of fear in the sentence, but even though they recognize that is a fear, it's not like one of the words, so they can uh search what I wanted to ask them.
SPEAKER_01Exactly, yeah. It's sometimes it's like a phone call almost. Like I call the AI and just talk normally with like you said, all the filler words, and he answers back like a real human. Like a huntoni demo mitanakanai, more wakateu like. So done.
SPEAKER_00So common eh? Yeah, I think I think it's also labeled up because of the AI support.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I think everybody's using AI, so they get a lot more information. I mean that's got it.
SPEAKER_00So no patan to come. Maybe there is more information to update AI levels, I think. So I'm really bad at the PC thing. I'm also really bad at leading the script. The page information. Ah, that's what you mean with script. Okay. What I want to know the information. Then I'm saying I not so no Hanash day King Sag this or the O say decided. I can talk to AI, then he search uh something, and he leads him up that and he tell me with some of the simple words.
SPEAKER_01He summarizes. But that's a really good idea actually. I usually use AI if I'm too lazy to Google and search for a specific answer to a specific problem. I just ask AI. It's almost like the new Google. Because if you Google you still have to check maybe a few websites. Yeah, so I can actually save time by just asking, by Googling AI, basically, like using the AI as Google, like Google Tamini AI.
SPEAKER_00Tashkani, Tashkani Nakao Anodua Tabu, Ugogas type. I'm the type of person who uh who can use brain with talking more. Ah Who can activate better while talking? Come shit. Think you can uh activate. Activate. I can activate when I am talking. So Nagara Ano the So the other hand, I I cannot activate my brain where I am reading something. Uh I cannot co continue my concentration. So activate it.
SPEAKER_01That's interesting. I am more of the listening type, so if I hear something, it's easier for me to remember rather than reading about it. So that's why the phone call voice chat feature is actually really helpful for me. Nanka Oriwa Mimi type.
SPEAKER_00I have seen some of the scene.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, it's like a he's like a friend that knows everything. So I think, ah, sorry, I have to call my friend real quick.
SPEAKER_00I have some task I have some time and trouble about to you how to use the application in the PC or like how to use on the site, website. Then if I ask the AI, uh he can simply answer to me. But if I try to uh search by myself in the internet, that's so hard because even I'm not good at a PC, so exactly yeah.
SPEAKER_01So same here.
SPEAKER_00I mean I'm really lucky type. Nah, that's why that's why you're lucky, yeah.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Yeah, I think AI is especially useful for some like all the technical stuff and uh like you said, software or data or any kind of device problems like uh Tokuni Technologica Technology Tecnology Technology Technology No Technology needs technology no tamini nan devin. Technology no no monogoto monogoto Mac technology no koto koto technology no koto uh AI suit is in it.
SPEAKER_00Kono generation uh so no ano AI didn't sky nayot omoto I think uh professional person think AI is really useless. For me, uh I'm really low level of the those things. I disagree. AI supports me to bring up until the basic line. So I'm really heavy from the AI.
SPEAKER_01I see, I see. But don't you think even professionals like some software developers are using AI a lot to assist their coding programming? Naka Puro nohtomo so no soft to nohito mo AI sky soja, eh? Ano motto naka Puro Ging notamini moto task karu kika soja.
SPEAKER_00Naka me da I have here like there is those AI team programming Nabanka ano programming there is both opinion negative and positive. Naka programming check you know kita I have here the story. Uh when the there is a problem after the AI, they need to check all the place because they are not sure which part there was a problem. They kick motor. I see. Then finally it makes more time.
SPEAKER_01I see. But I have to say I did some programming once for yeah some time, and even if you don't use AI, I don't know, or mostly AI nashi day, I'm like AI it's kinda you still have to check everywhere if there is a mistake. If there if the code doesn't work, you have to check everything. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Maybe the case like we when we want to make a uh website, then let's go with AI. That's really easy.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, maybe nowadays actually yeah we are really lucky to be able to use it for creative things. Um cre creative na creative and tekini, creative tekini, chicano.
SPEAKER_00Yeah creative natana.
SPEAKER_01Creative na koto, creative no tamini creative na koto kotokana creative na koto no tame no tame Ano AI mosto ano Nan Kekure Naka image toka website toka. So dane it can make everything pictures websites.
SPEAKER_00There is a picture and m the music and sometimes there is a game AI made by AI.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Do you think it's uh scary to see I don't know, for example, yeah because AI can do anything, if we are like scrolling YouTube, Instagram, whatever, we maybe are not even sure anymore is this content real or is this content AI generated? Naka. Kwa kunai I know content uh konodoga wa AI kadoka Wakana knach chanzana Tochiga Hon Monomita naga Naka. Kanini kui not do como show night.
SPEAKER_00There is some of the like really high quality and that we cannot uh distinguish it that is from the AI. But usually I think I can understand which is AI and not. There is no more prob and there is no problem to uh use any source to run AI. Educator AI. So they are no it don't uh illustrate no gazota. A lot of illustrators' pictures are used as without any permission.
SPEAKER_01Exactly.
SPEAKER_00Then so there is not any AI amoto you may not take his then when I when they realized AI was using their picture, that was already done and they you cannot take it back anymore.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, exactly.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, so no illustrator needed AI no picture. So that's why AI picture has some of the um atmosphere, and those atomosphere is really came from that illustrator, some of the illustrator, and really similar.
SPEAKER_01So do you munde wa at the yeah I agree, yeah. I also think especially it's uh maybe it's easy for us to recognize ah this video is obviously AI or this image is obviously AI. But I feel like the for older people that are not used to using social media or that didn't grow up with social media, it's maybe more difficult to identify ah, is this AI or not? Nanka Wata Nanka, waka naka wakamonaga moto naritakamoon AI gach gana nanka, eay godoka, sonodoga demo naka Toshi Wito wa tabun Moto wakarini ki kamushila nainaka Kono Doga AI te I had some people that are older than me, maybe ten or twenty years older than me, send me some videos like from Instagram reel to ganes like typical some no Toshi Vito ka Sono Bito could this reel was very obviously AI for me.
SPEAKER_00So, I'm not sure what I'm saying.
SPEAKER_01Maybe some random interview with a funny answer. They look on the in the other direction and you know it's very obvious, but naka sana sort of interview no dog, no dog. It's not because it's fake, yeah. But the person who sent it to me oftentimes did not realize that. You know there were some cases, but uh one was
SPEAKER_00Maybe 50 to my end of 30s to kayakanj so end of sati no internet is internet to still yeah I think it gets worse the older they get.
SPEAKER_01Not that how can I say the sentence in Japanese? Moto Toshototo Toshio Toro to Moto Yabaku Shinai. So of course the 50-60 year old cases um yeah that's maybe no so I can 50 40 can like 50-60 also uh no ninch so mad maybe uh around the 40 or 50 50-60 people has also the problem of the you know the recognition of the brain you know. Oh really?
SPEAKER_00When you get uh older uh sometimes you cannot remember something well and you cannot detect something well.
SPEAKER_0140 is not higher can I think. The older you get, the more difficult it gets. And maybe now we still understand what is AI and whatnot. In five years, in ten years, we are also, I think it will be difficult for us too. Naka, we're gonna go to the AI no Shiruk Siruho Hoga X gana patans.
SPEAKER_00Now it's very uh easy to detect because uh there is only a few patterns to output from the AI. For example, like in the video of the nature phrase and all the same BZM of the white white sound is sounding. So of course you can understand that it's AI. The same background music. So so so to ka kamera nochiga chotu hen to ka the weird motion of the camera toka or some of the kata mono ugochiga mono gochito ka no gochitoka pin to gasiko kida. Maybe the because the focus of the paint in the b video paint? Yeah, paint, like lens, uh focus on the lens, uh was too clear or too bad. Too bad or something, or like a hen thatoka. Uh um blurry? Blurry, yeah. So then maybe you can understand because that was too weird video.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I think the easiest to notice is uh on people. AI generated people I think are easy to spot. Naka Hitoni wa mit Chavakarias. I think you said the background sound effects or the camera shaking. I think that is harder for me to guess is this AI or not. Naka BGM to camera no ugoku ways. I would need examples, but no.
SPEAKER_00There's a lot of animal video.
SPEAKER_01And uh, where you can't be standing up and playing guitar.
SPEAKER_00Okay, Savannah no chirino ezo deska maybe the video from the savannah area of the giraffe demo kiding a suria na thatoka. But just a hand on the other. Some of that is a little bit weird. Kidding the Naniska.
SPEAKER_01A giraffe. Giraffe. A killing kidding giraffe. I never saw any kind of that kind of video.
SPEAKER_00What about Jacquini? I I think the distinct human is AI or not, is more harder. Because I know Hito was AI no kaku garja. The AI no kaku to AI the Tsura video, can I? I think this is difficult to uh lorize because uh there is a lot of video make it up by AI. So I cannot this is make it up by AI or made by AI completely from the bit older video.
SPEAKER_01They use uh like a mask, uh like a masking feature so that copies their movements, you mean?
SPEAKER_00Uh not only the Vaka Kao Tatasa Chugokuno YouTube. So, AI the other time. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. I saw also some just one guy, some guys they they can change their entire appearance to a beautiful woman, and then they do like some streams. And it looks very real naka. Kaiteruno Ska Mok tekimo mita no kiko oikamo shina. Hm so done. Hmm.
SPEAKER_00So the animation of the real the ta this technology has become really really good recently, so it's almost impossible to tell if it's a kotimita to when they look the side, then the feature tick off and then you realize oh it was uh make it up by the AI. Yeah. Then what so they make it up no AI was uh original garage. Yeah. Make up the AI version is there's original person and take a video. So the thing what happened in the video is ma something true, right? But is made but uh brush it up by AI. Ah, so good. But it's difficult to distinct if the video is completely created from zero by AI or not. I mean, kawa mo AI ni natilika AI na gero demo kadoga.
SPEAKER_01So that's nice. Yeah, that's true.
SPEAKER_00But Ugokian eh?
SPEAKER_01The motion, I think, yeah. Ugoki one, eh?
SPEAKER_00So AI wache, you don't eh. I think that there is a lot of AI and a lot of kind of AI and that is really used to, but by the time it's getting really hard to distinguish the which is AI and risk which is rare. We can say distinguish in the world. Distinguish.