In the early 1980s, one of the events that kicked US artificial intelligence (AI) efforts into high gear was the announcement that the government of Japan was funding the Fifth Generation Project — a project to design a special computer for AI work. The US government promptly followed suit, and US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the military provided grants for US companies to work on their own “Fifth Generation” computers. I mention this because Japan’s National Institute for Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (NIAIST) has just announced that it will fund the development of an AI supercomputer.
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