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00:00The future of our hometown is in the hands of those who are working hard to find a company in the process of growing up in their hometowns all over the country.
00:30Let's try it for the first time. I wonder how far we can go.
00:37It doesn't matter if it's twisted and twisted.
00:41It's all about me.
00:54Good evening. The future of our hometown has begun again tonight.
00:57Tonight's program is brought to you by Book Lounge Kaburu, located on the 3rd floor of Kabuto Bay in Nihonbashi.
01:02The theme of tonight's program is the 6th edition of the University Series.
01:08We've seen quite a lot.
01:10There were a lot of universities with unique characteristics.
01:13That's right. There were Meiji University, Chiba Shoka University, and recently Otsuma Girls' University.
01:18However, changing the future is not just about companies.
01:22Universities are places where people who aim for the future are raised.
01:25It's a perfect theme for the future of our hometown.
01:29But today, it's a little different from what we've seen so far.
01:33Until now, all universities were private universities.
01:36But this time, it's a public university.
01:39I'm looking forward to it again.
01:41It's a very unique university. Please take a look.
01:46Tonight's program is brought to you by Hakodate City, Hokkaido.
01:56The population is the third largest in Hokkaido with about 240,000 people.
02:03Speaking of this year's hot topics...
02:06Let's start with the hot topics of the new year.
02:09Tuna, purple sea urchin, and cake.
02:16On January 5th, the first auction held at Toyosu Market,
02:20Hakodate's purple sea urchin was sold at the highest price of 7 million yen per piece.
02:29In Hakodate City, where the news of good cake has spread early in the new year,
02:34the program staff went to...
02:3715 minutes by car from Hakodate Airport.
02:43Hakodate Future University.
02:48It's a relatively new university founded in 2000.
02:53What kind of university is it?
02:58We asked President Keiji Suzuki.
03:02It's a university of information technology.
03:06Learning about computers is one of the basics.
03:11But it's not just about learning how to operate a computer.
03:17It's about learning how to think about the system itself.
03:24That's the characteristic of this university.
03:29Hakodate Future University is a science and technology department.
03:38About 1,000 students are based on computer technology.
03:42They learn various fields such as artificial intelligence, design, and art.
03:51What is the reason for the establishment?
03:54The reason is that we wanted to challenge new science.
04:01Originally, we were going to build a national university,
04:06but we decided to build a public university instead.
04:11Hakodate is an open university,
04:15so we wanted to use new science and information to open a new university.
04:21That's why we decided to build a public university.
04:30By the way, Hakodate City is not a public university.
04:35It's run by two cities, Hokuto City and Nanae City.
04:42It's a rare university.
04:47One of the characteristics of Future University is the high employment rate.
04:54Especially in the telecommunications industry,
04:57the employment rate for major companies such as NTT, KDDI, and SoftBank is the same as that of famous universities.
05:07In recent years, about 30 IT companies have been established in Hakodate City.
05:13One of the key factors is the existence of Future University.
05:18Of course, graduates are also active in society.
05:23Honda Tatsuya, who works for Fujitsu, a general electronics manufacturer, graduated from a university in 2015.
05:33He was selected as one of the top economists in the world, Forbes,
05:37and was selected as one of the top economists in the world, Forbes,
05:43and is currently developing a device called Antenna, a device that senses sound with vibration and light.
05:50Antenna converts sound, vibration, and light intensity into real-time,
05:55and transmits rhythm and pattern to the user.
06:00For example, when you don't know how loud your voice is when you practice speaking,
06:05when you say, ah, ah, ah, it shines and vibrates,
06:08and you can tell how loud your voice is.
06:11It's a clip type, so you can put it on your hair or clothes.
06:15You can use it in various places.
06:18Currently, more than 80% of elementary schools around the country have this antenna,
06:24and it is being used in music classes and physical education classes.
06:30Moreover, this antenna seems to have been developed during his university days.
06:36When I was doing my undergraduate research,
06:38I was still working on the prototype of the board.
06:43But when I was in my second year of university,
06:46I was invited to a project called MITO Project,
06:49which is a project run by the Ministry of Finance and the Information Processing Promotion Agency,
06:54where young researchers are paid to do interesting things.
06:59This is how I evolved and became a product.
07:05His research during his university days led to his current activities.
07:10Honda-san asked him about the good things about MITO Project.
07:16The good thing about MITO Project is that there are so many teachers.
07:20There are design teachers, theory teachers, mechanical teachers,
07:25and security researchers.
07:29The distance between me and the teacher is very close.
07:31I can see the teacher's room.
07:36I can see what the teacher is doing.
07:38If I don't have a meeting now, I can knock on the door and talk to him.
07:42The sense of distance is unique to the future generation.
07:48If there was no future generation, I wouldn't be where I am now.
07:52Thank you very much.
07:56When he actually enters the building,
08:03he sees a lot of glass.
08:12He can see everything from the first floor to the fifth floor.
08:15He can see who is doing what.
08:23There is a feeling that the future generation will pay attention to.
08:28The motto of this school is open space, open mind.
08:33I hope that the students will cultivate this spirit
08:37by using the environment of this building.
08:41I want you to design a school.
08:43I want you to think about what kind of building you want to use
08:48and how you can contribute to the advancement of education.
08:53I spent a lot of time discussing this.
08:56When I think of information systems,
08:58I think of an image of a computer
09:00that does something without talking to people.
09:06But it's not like that.
09:08What's important is communication with people.
09:10The advancement of education
09:13and the effect of education will be fully created
09:16when we think of a building that is easy to communicate with people.
09:21I think this kind of open space is good.
09:25You can immediately see what kind of teacher is doing
09:29and what kind of thing that student group is doing.
09:34I think it's a very good idea to create an opportunity to think about what to do.
09:41When I asked the students,
09:44I felt a sense of freedom.
09:46It's a design that I really like.
09:49As you can see, I think this open space is good.
09:52When I'm walking like this, I feel like there are people in the lab.
09:56When I look at it, I feel like I'm doing my best, so I'm going to do my best, too.
10:01So what's next?
10:04I'm glad I joined here
10:08because I was able to research what I like.
10:12We interview students who are passionate about their dreams.
10:18I want to use the smart production industry
10:21to create a state where I can continue my business.
10:27It's a unique initiative of Hakodate Future University.
10:31And more!
10:32It's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity,
10:35so if I don't do it now, I don't think I'll ever do it again.
10:38I want to expand my company and pay back.
10:41We will introduce the students who have just started their studies at the university.
10:48It's already different from before.
10:51There were various departments at the university I introduced on this show before,
10:56but this time it was just one department.
11:00Tonight, we have President Keiji Suzuki of Hakodate Future University.
11:05Nice to meet you.
11:06Nice to meet you.
11:09Nice to meet you.
11:12Did you come here from Hakodate?
11:14Yes, I did.
11:16I'm glad you made it.
11:18It's still cold even though spring is coming.
11:20Yes, it is.
11:21There's still a lot of snow.
11:23Thank you very much.
11:25First of all, the building looks like an airport.
11:29Yes, it does.
11:30It's amazing what everyone is doing.
11:33It starts with the idea that you want to go with that kind of design.
11:37That's right.
11:38It took me a long time to decide what kind of building to build.
11:42I made several patterns and decided on that.
11:47What kind of research did you do originally?
11:51I'm an AI.
11:54I applied AI to robots and drones.
12:03From the perspective of a president, Hakodate Future University is like a dream university.
12:08That's right.
12:11This time, it's a public university.
12:14Is it a university where tuition is reduced compared to private universities?
12:18That's right.
12:19I think it will be much cheaper compared to private universities.
12:22I see.
12:24I think the IT industry is booming in Hakodate City.
12:28Thanks to that, the IT industry is lacking in talent.
12:32It's the same in every industry.
12:34The IT industry is also lacking in talent.
12:37I'm very happy that the students of this university came to Hakodate City
12:43and came here because they wanted to do various things in cooperation with the university.
12:50Graduates have been employed in large companies and have developed a lot.
12:55In fact, I realized it while I was studying.
12:59That's amazing.
13:00Thanks to you.
13:01That's why many people are interested in this university.
13:05That's right.
13:06And after this,
13:08in Hakodate Future University,
13:10there is an unexpected relationship with Black Jack, the representative work of Osamu Tezuka, the god of manga.
13:17What?
13:20In November 2023, a work was published in a manga magazine and it became a hot topic.
13:29It is the new work of Black Jack published by Weekly Shonen Champion.
13:36Black Jack is one of the representative works of Osamu Tezuka, the god of manga.
13:43This work was made by an A.I.
13:49The main member of this project is
13:54Mr. Hajime Murai of Hakodate Future University.
14:01In the current stage of artificial intelligence,
14:03we are trying to see how far we can get closer to Mr. Tezuka's interest and charm.
14:10We don't think that artificial intelligence can do all the creation,
14:15but we are trying to see how far artificial intelligence can understand creation and become a human supporter.
14:23This is a project to explore the limits of artificial intelligence.
14:30Mr. Murai, who studied the story with an A.I.
14:38We analyzed the structure of the story of Black Jack,
14:44and we made a new Tezuka-style work based on it.
14:51There are not many people who have studied the story,
14:57analyzed the pattern, and created it with artificial intelligence.
15:00We wanted to recreate Mr. Tezuka's work,
15:03so we decided to include it in the project.
15:08How did you create the pattern?
15:13We divided the story into scenes,
15:15and we developed a method to symbolize what is happening in each scene,
15:20and what the characters are doing in each scene.
15:24First, we digitized all the data of Black Jack.
15:29This is the actual data.
15:33Each scene has a detailed summary of who is doing what to whom.
15:41After the data is created, we analyzed the statistics,
15:44and analyzed how the story changes in chronological order,
15:47what the characteristics of the characters are, and where to take action.
15:52We analyzed the statistics of the characters,
15:55and we decided that the quality of the patterns
15:58are the main characteristics of Mr. Tezuka.
16:02Then we combined the data, and created the story in a way that is not related to the data.
16:06This is how we created the Tezuka-style story.
16:12According to Mr. Murai,
16:14the initial work of digitizing the data was particularly difficult.
16:19Tezuka's work is a short story,
16:21but the structure of the story is very dense.
16:24So, in a short page,
16:26there are many complex patterns of the story.
16:31First, we had to separate them,
16:33and create a data structure for the combination of them.
16:37It took a lot of time.
16:39It took about two and a half to three years.
16:43It took almost that long.
16:46It's been about a year and a half since the creation of Black Jack.
16:52What is the current status of AI?
16:58It's been about a year and a half since the creation of Black Jack.
17:03What is the current status of AI?
17:07It's evolving at a very fast rate.
17:10At that time, we were able to create a story at a practical level.
17:15We also tried to create a dialogue,
17:18but we were told that the accuracy of the dialogue was not good.
17:22But now, we are able to create a high-quality dialogue,
17:26even if it takes a long time.
17:28I think it's a system that can support humans in more detail.
17:34AI is a technology.
17:37If you misuse any technology, it's dangerous.
17:42If you use it well, it's convenient,
17:44but if you use it in a strange way, it's not good for humans.
17:48So, it's a little troublesome to use it properly
17:51and make progress before society can accept it.
17:56So, we're going to spend a little more time than normal technology,
18:00and see how we can use it in a way that doesn't pose a problem to society
18:04and show the benefits to society.
18:09I think you're doing a lot of research just by listening to the story.
18:13I think it's hard for teachers to catch up with the world of AI.
18:19That's right.
18:21When I was in the lab, I had to think about the theme of graduation.
18:26I thought I'd be able to do it in 10 or 20 years.
18:34But now, if you don't think about it carefully,
18:37you'll miss it while you're doing it as a graduation theme.
18:41Wow, that's fast.
18:43It's faster to make progress in AI than in a year.
18:46There's a possibility that you'll be able to do it first.
18:50So, it's quite challenging.
18:53But I think I'll be able to do it in three years.
18:58It's not easy unless you set a challenging theme.
19:03On the other hand, it's so challenging
19:06that teachers have to study a lot to teach it.
19:14Many students are interested in Mr. Murai's research
19:18and 28 students are currently in the lab.
19:23What kind of research are they doing using AI?
19:30Next week, we'll introduce you to the research content that is too unique.
19:37I'm doing research on social media ads.
19:42I'm doing research on social media ads.
19:49I'm doing research on how to make an ideal teacher with AI.
19:57Among them are...
19:58I'm doing research on how to make an attractive teacher.
20:03I'm a bit of a maniac.
20:06What is this maniac content?
20:11Why is it next week?
20:13I'm curious, but it's next week.
20:42The latest episode is now available on TVer.
20:46Don't miss it!