Meta Head Mark Zuckerberg talks about AI risks with Japan’s Prime Minister, Telekom News, ET Telecom

Tokyo: Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg reportedly met with Prime Minister Fumio Kishida during his visit to Japan and discussed the risks of generative AI. “We had a rich and fulfilling conversation about the future of AI and technology,” local media reported. Zuckerberg said after a 30-minute meeting on Tuesday.

“I’m really excited about the work that’s happening here in Japan,” the Facebook founder said after the meeting, which also reportedly included Joel Kaplan, Meta’s vice president of global public policy.

Generative artificial intelligence, led by OpenAI’s ChatGPT, is a technology that can summon text, images, and audio in seconds from a simple prompt.

Its rapid development reportedly has potentially revolutionary potential for everything from video games to politics, but it has also brought positive as well as negative consequences. Masu.

This month, Meta was among 20 major tech companies, including OpenAI, to sign a pledge to crack down on AI content aimed at misleading voters ahead of important elections around the world this year. It was one of the companies.

The technology groups had previously agreed to use a common watermarking standard to tag images generated by AI applications such as ChatGPT, Meta’s Llama, Microsoft’s Copilot, and Google’s Gemini.

Zuckerberg, 39, has been in Japan for several days for work and play, skiing with his family, training with a Japanese sword master, and eating at McDonald’s.

Local media outlet Mainichi Business News reported that he arrived in South Korea’s capital Seoul on Tuesday night on a private plane for the second leg of his Asian tour.

According to local media, he is scheduled to meet with South Korean President Yun Seok-yeol and the leaders of global tech giants Samsung and LG.

“We are arranging a meeting with Meta,” a spokesperson for Yun’s office told AFP on Wednesday.

According to a report in the Korean Economic Newspaper, Zuckerberg will meet with the CEO of LG Electronics to discuss developing a mixed reality headset to compete with Apple’s Vision Pro.

Miles said his agenda in South Korea includes a meeting with the head of Samsung Electronics, one of the world’s largest smartphone and semiconductor companies.

Zuckerberg will then attend a lavish pre-wedding celebration in India from March 1-3 for Mukesh Ambani, the son of Mukesh Ambani, chairman of oil and communications giant Reliance.

Mehta, Google and others have invested billions of dollars in Reliance’s digital arm Jio Platforms in a bid to compete with Amazon and Walmart in India’s huge e-commerce market.