Interview: Japan and Canada can do more to accelerate AI adoption

Hiroki Shimoo

TOKYO, June 9 (Jiji Press) — Japan and Canada could work more closely to accelerate the introduction of artificial intelligence into the real world, say experts at a Toronto-based cutting-edge research institute.

“AI is going to be the technology that powers the future,” Cameron Schuler, chief commercialization officer and vice president of industrial innovation at Vector Institute, said in a recent interview with Jiji Press.

“There are many opportunities for Japan and Canada to cooperate,” he said, citing manufacturing, financial services, life sciences and other industries as promising areas for cooperation.

Established in 2017 with initial funding from the Canadian federal government, the Ontario government, and private industry, the institute works on cutting-edge AI research and helps businesses and other organizations adopt the technology. Jeffrey Hinton, a professor emeritus at the University of Toronto and a world authority on AI research who won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics, serves as the institute’s chief scientific advisor.

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