whispered text: I thought the digital human would peak in 25 years, but at the current rate, I think it will be around the beginning of 24 years, and this child, you know, it's not a real child, but it's very photogenic, isn't it? Does that mean that the human user interface is almost obsolete? Yes, and when I look at the art that dead people made, they only did it while they were alive, because digital human beings don't die. So, I forgot to mention last time, and I'm going to end this conversation with something a little more erotic, so be warned, there's going to be some images. What does this mean? You know, all the stay-bridged fusions and things like that, they're all online, right? Of course, some of them are running on GPU boards, but the software for creating so-called "generative AI" is very advanced these days, and now you can define the model by yourself, so I made a lot of Ochiai-defined models. But it's very photographic, isn't it? I mean, if I take it a step further, I can make it look a little more realistic, but now that she's here, look, look, look, I've already come up with something bad, haven't I? So, where's the guy from before? So, where did the guy from before go? So, we can make a lot of chat buttons with this. I'll just say, "Well, isn't she cute?" and then I'll say, "Well, isn't she cute?" and then I'll say, "Well, isn't she cute?" and then I'll say, "Well, isn't she cute?" and then I'll say, "Yes, she's cute?" and then I'll say, "Yes, she's cute." and then I'll chat. Computational nature, we've been saying all along, is a new place for life, where humans are included in the vastness of the world's larger digital world, where life takes a new place and becomes more precise over life and death, which is nice, isn't it? What is the point of all this? If you want a human-user interface, you can have as many human-user interfaces as you want, but you won't have a body. If you want a human-user interface, you can have as many human-user interfaces as you want, but without a body. I don't know if it's true that we're all just pixels, but that's what I mean. So, the digital population is going to grow infinitely, right? I've been saying since 2020 that we will be doing only digital humans for 25 years, and the technology will be steadily advancing toward that time, and it's not easy to be 5 years ahead. There is a difference between a butterfly and a herb, but this is what I mean by the change of all things. It's a good thing that the things that have changed themselves have finally become things that have a form and have been made possible by a computer. One day it's a butterfly, the next day it's a human being, the next day it's a game, the next day it's a voice, the next day it's a sound, the next day it's a video, the next day it's a girl, the next day it's the Sasaki family, the next day it's me, we are your friends, right? I think it's a good idea to have a little bit of a sense of what's going on in the world. No, simply because, for example, we are a digital nature laboratory, and it says that we have built the world's largest data set of deities by visiting more than 1,000 shrines across the country and generating over 40 million yen worth of deities, right? People used to say, "What's the point of that?" but this is the only thing we can do. Our lab at Digital Nature and this girl have been doing research on optimizing classical printing methods, but these alternative processes that are rubbed with classical printing methods are not data, are they? I'm doing research on optimizing the classical printing method, but there are endless things that are not in the data. I have been saying for a long time that the era of human-centeredness is over. Digital natureThe relationship between nature and man has changed to the relationship between computers and nature, which means that the master-slave relationship will also change, and since nature and computers are talking to each other, humans are not the center of the relationship. If you ask me if agriculture is a slave to the weather, yes, agriculture is a slave to the weather, but it's fun, isn't it? If you think of it as nature, and machines are not the enemy, but the same as nature, then it's digital nature, digital nature, it's like farming in digital nature. I've been explaining this kind of thing for eight years now, and it's starting to sink in. I think I'm going to be a decent person for the world, but I'm thinking that everyone, even now there are many decent jobs, will listen to me more seriously, and that's all I'm thinking about. It's true that people are not born to work. In that sense, Western society has the idea that labor is a punishment, and there is a strong desire to be free from labor. I think it's a good match. Japanese people don't think of farming as labor, but as a dialogue with nature. The most important thing to remember is that the music and dance are based on a time axis and have a history of 500,000 years or so. The reason why we have the oil problem today is because for millions of years when we moved a 60 kilogram body we only moved a 60 kilogram body but we moved other things and if we can exist electrically in various places we can solve the energy problem of the earth. I think it makes sense to raise the cost of transportation and lower the cost of logistics, but when you think about it, if we create a world where it is good to move around electrically and lower the environmental impact, it is good because people can move around electrically even though they don't move their bodies, and it is good because they can move around electrically. I was having a conversation in Dubai yesterday or the day before yesterday, and I was talking with my partner, and he was saying that you NFT artists are saying that digital art is not deep enough. I'm a computer scientist and a researcher of displays, and I also make NFT and am an artist, but you guys are too focused on what kind of contrast the pixels have, what kind of color space they are expressed in, what kind of light they come out from what kind of monitor, and what kind of space they are propagated in. In other words, how the digital is received, how it is compressed, how it is combined, how it is converted into color, how carefully you watch the process itself, that is, how it is converted into digital and not moved. Even though you say you convert to digital and don't move your body, there is such a difference even in the digital world, and I think people who study such things until they fall into an intuitive understanding of it are strong. It's not just a matter of the computer converting the data, but it's also a matter of the globalization of the digital space, which is already underway, and the globalization of the actual movement of people or the globalization of the movement of goods in terms of trade, which is going to become much more significant. So it's a little bit unethical to travel 15 hours to get somewhere far away from the city to use fuel for a plane. So you're saying it's a little unethical to travel 15 hours to someplace far away to spend fuel on a plane? So, is it unethical to travel 15 hours on a plane to get somewhere far away from the city? But we can live with people all over the world in the digital space, and not only with humans, but also with various digital human beings. That's how I feel about it. I'm Norihiko Sasaki and I'm going to have a conversation with Norihiko Ochiai. And if you create a digital human Sasaki and a digital tailor to actually talk to each other, you can create content very quickly. If you're a real person and you're valuable and valuable and popular, you can expand infinitely, infinitely, infinitely. But if you expand too much you give up and say goodbye to this guy again. For example, if it were Tetsuya Komuro, I would listen to his music, but it doesn't mean that Tetsuya Komuro would cook at my house every day, but if Nekikara were a Komuro fan, that might be true, or if it were a Japanese idol, he might cook, wash clothes, sing songs, and do a karaoke or something. I don't know, but that idol might be a customized idol, and I'm starting to see that it's not such a dark story at all. For example, if I'm old and can't remember what I've said so far, why don't I have him do half the talking? For example, when I read Digital Nature, I sometimes wonder what I used to think about. So, is the time you spend while you are alive a period of time to preserve your intellectual or linguistic assets? Artists are always fighting against dead people, and most of the famous artists are dead people, so when you look at what kind of art the dead people were making, they were only doing it while they were alive, so there may be more things to be done after they die. In that case, it would be better to work hard and output a lot while you are alive, so that your actual life span will be extended or you will not get tired of it. It's the opposite, isn't it? Digital human beings don't die, so if capital or time of execution is unlimited after death, if capital is maximized before death, the amount of things that can be produced or that have a person's presence in them can be considerably multiplied, as long as the company is well understood. The capital is to expand it. It's hard because the gap will continue to widen forever if you do that. I think it's going to be a little while before digital nature will mesh with the times, isn't it? I decided on "digital nature" because I thought it was a theme that would last for about 10 years, but I wanted to keep it longer than others and start working on it earlier than others, so that it will be able to be used more heavily when it begins to generate information on its own. I think it's a good idea to make a decision over a span of about 10 years, and to do it earlier than others, and then design it so that it will overlap when people start to generate information on their own. I've been reading your notebooks lately and you often write about your impending death and how you've become a memento morin. What do you want to do? I was 29 when I started the show with Mr. Sasaki. I've been cooped up in Corona for about two years, so I'd like to go global for about 10 years, and that's about it, right? But everything is connected, so for me it's sometimes expression, sometimes business, sometimes research, so the key point is whether or not people will come to understand digital nature and recognize it on a global level, but I've been talking a lot lately in various countries. I've been speaking a lot in various countries recently, and people are finally starting to say that digital nature is indeed a reality. I'm setting it at 41. How old are you now, Mr. Ozaki? I'm 43 now and I'm getting to the point where I'm aware of my life expectancy. As they say, a year goes by so fast that it feels like my life is coming to an end. I don't want to do work that I don't want to do because I have to use my life in a planned manner, and I don't want to do art that I don't want to do. I want to do something contemporary, but I think I'll be done with that by the time I'm 40, don't you? I think so. I'm enjoying my life, so I'm okay with that, but I thought I'd peak in 25, but at the rate I'm going, I think it'll be around the beginning of 2012. I think it's a little early, but the last time we talked was about four months ago, and the accuracy has improved by far compared to four months ago. I hope we'll be able to hack passwords in another 4 months. It would be nice to be able to open things that can no longer be opened for security reasons, but you can't use it for that purpose, can you? I'd like to see it evolve to the point where you can do it on your own, but I've already forgotten the password to my Wi-Fi router and don't know how to reset it, which doesn't happen often, but I think we're going to see more and more of that kind of thing, which I forgot to mention last time, but I'll end with this: I'm very interested in the rights of consumers. I'm very interested in the idea that consumers have the right to open up the inside of everything they own and iFixit says they have the right to jailbreak any device or handle any property that they own. It's not just a matter of being able to use it in that way, but it's a matter of being able to use it in any way that you want. But if there is an AI that can reverse-engineer everything, the world will change in a mysterious way. Why is it changing in a strange way? Because everything will be controllable, and the AI will have more control over it? So you're saying that there's a place that's closed, that's going to be unlocked, that's going to be opened up, and then you're going to be able to put your own OS on it. If you buy a smartphone and say, "I don't like iOS, so I'll rewrite it to Sasaki OS," and Sasaki OS says, "This is who I am, this is the kind of app I like, and this is how I made the user interface," and the user interface is suddenly integrated into the iPhone, you can put it on your iPhone even though you can't put it on now. Wouldn't it be very interesting if the AI could write the interface for you? Oh, I see, but Windows is now WindowsiOS is iOSMac OS X is OS X, right? In principle, there are individual rights, and for companies, there are copyrights and patents, and how much of that belongs to the company? So, I think Europeans are going to say, "Well, up until now, we've had to put all that away under copyrights and contracts, and now we're going to say, 'I agree to the contract. The day after GPT was launched, one of our lab students was doing a workshop, and he said that the tabs on Google's Chrome were piling up, and what should we do about it, and he said that we should delete the tabs, and we should consolidate the tabs that we don't need, and then he asked us to write a JavaScript program that would automatically close the tabs after a certain amount of time, and we wrote it. They write a JavaScript program for me, and then they ask me if I want to publish it on the Chrome store. In other words, when you have a tool, the AI itself will tell you how to hack the tool. I think Siri was the first one to introduce it, maybe not the first, but there are a lot of other commanders like that, so I think Siri is the one that made it popular. I'm having a lot of fun with it, but I'm having fun every day. Thank you very much for your time today