CRAZYTANK News vol.217／Why “Trying what you don't understand” will be essential in the future
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CRAZYTANK News vol.217
September is now half over, and even though the autumnal equinox will finally arrive next week, the days have been hot anyway.
Today, the 17th, is Jugo-ya (the nigh of the full moon) . May you be able to look up at the moon while feeling the cool autumn breeze.
Well, in this week's newsletter, we wrote a deeper article about why we need to take a stance of “challenging what we don't understand,” which is a stance that CRAZYTANK emphasizes.
Please take a moment to read it.
Why “Trying what you don't understand” will be essential in the future
At CRAZYTANK, there is a stance that has been important to us since the time of our predecessor organizational entity.
We think we have mentioned it several times in this newsletter, that is,
Let's challenge what we don't understand.
The foundation of this stance is not emotional factors such as ideals and thoughts, but a rational sense of choice, that it is better to think rationally.
Why is it better to “try what you don't understand”?
This is something we tell various companies and people we work with as advisors on a daily basis, but we feel that it is perceived by many as an emotional part of their philosophy and thoughts.
Therefore, in this newsletter, we would like to reiterate and deepen why we feel it is better to “challenge what you don't understand” as a rational choice.
First of all, we humans need to admit once and for all that we are creatures who attack what we do not understand.
Even if you think you are not such a person, imagine, for example, that you have to live deep in the jungle.
Suppose there is an ethnic group living there that has a different culture, language, and lifestyle than our own.
How many of us can immediately live in harmony with this ethnic group in order to survive? There is a great possibility of being attacked by this ethnic group.
Just as the European peoples who discovered the Americas once attacked the indigenous peoples, it has been shown in the field of brain science that humans usually “have a habit of attacking what they do not understand,” and perhaps in such a situation, everyone would attack some creature that they do not understand.
It is never an individual personality trait; we are all “afraid of what we don't understand.
That is why people do not bother to choose what they do not understand. They prefer “what they can understand” and choose “what they can relate to.
It is also true that these things have become the basis for the development of services and goods that promote economic growth, and that businesses to date have been built on them.
However, we are now entering a different world.
It is truly a “world coexisting with artificial intelligence AI”.
CRAZYTANK CEO Takehana foresaw the coming of a completely new era and world more than 18 years ago, triggered by his encounter with artificial intelligence. The knowledge he gained in the process of continuously searching for a “human way of life” that would fit the needs of the times has become the foundation of Crazy Tank today.
We predict to a future in which the evolution of AI will ultimately replace all modern jobs performed by humans.
AI should first enter the jobs created by humans, especially those that “everyone understands” and are easy to rationalize.
The things that humans “understand” and “feel comfortable with” will be easier to pattern, in other words, easier for AI to learn, and therefore, the work in the “understandable” fields will require much less manpower and labor than in the past.
In other words, we should all be aware of the fact that the number of jobs in the “understandable” fields will be overwhelmingly reduced for those of us who will have to live in the future.
And this, paradoxically, means that it is in the “unfamiliar” that possibilities are found.
When we work on the “unfamiliar,” there is still a process that allows us to work with our hands, to worry and discover, which means that there is still frontier territory left to be explored.
If we look back again, people who create new value in every age have always found value in “what we don't know. We believe that those who have created new things were convinced that there was new value in them because at first everyone around them said “I don't understand".
AI will make it possible to finish the various value processes that our predecessors have built up over a long period of time in such a way so far, with great ease and in an instant.
Imagine what it is like when you see this in various fields.
It is convenient, rational, and efficient, but at the same time, as a human being, you may begin to wonder, “Is this the way things are going to stay?”
It is precisely at such times that we believe it is important to move beyond our own familiar fields and have the courage to “challenge what we don't understand”.
As we enter an age of coexistence with AI, we feel that a stance of “challenging what we don't understand” will become an indispensable daily ability for more and more people to live “like human beings.