AI vs Children who do not understand their textbook

I picked up a book "AI vs 教科書が読めない子どもたち"(AI vs Children who do not understand their textbook) for my next task to summarize in English.
新井紀子 (Noriko Arai, Ph.D), the author of this book, is a Japanese mathematician, and has been engaged in developing and teaching an AI named 東ロボくん（To-robo-kun）to make 'him' pass the entrance exam for the University of Tokyo (the best university in Japan).

Many people believe the advent of the Singularity which means the point of time for the Artificial Intelligence will have exceeded the human intelligence. But the author says it's impossible. "AI is based on mathematics. All that AI can do is things that can be deal with mathematics.", she says. "Although AI is going to replace some of human jobs, human intelligence is more than that." "However, the problem is that there are significant numbers of Japanese students whose reading skills are insufficient to understand even their textbook, which means they cannot get a job that needs more intelligence than AI."

What answer you'll get depends 90% on how you communicate #3

Chapter 3: Anyone can create "strong expression" -- Systematic process to create strong strong expression.

-The amount of information has become 530 times larger in the last 10 years due to the internet.
 *Boring expressions are ignored.
 *High-profile people's speeches sounds very impressive. That is because they know how to make impressive expressions, not because they are high-profile. Such ability made them well known.
-Definition of "strong expression": Wording to move someone's emotion.
-How to generate energy in your words: Make a contrast
-Five techniques to  make contrasts
 Surprising method
 Gap method
 Emotional method (Depict emotional or physical reactions)
 Repeating method
 Climax method
 -Expressions based on one's emotion are universally strong.
 -Human behaviors/acts are determined NOT by rules, but emotion.

What answer you'll get depends 90% on how you communicate #2

Chapter 2: Technique to change NO to YES --- How to get YES to your request ever after

-You can MAKE effective wording, not CONCEIVE OF
-Do NOT leave your result of asking to chance
-Three steps to get YES to your request
 Step 1: Do NOT express the contents in your mind as they are.
           (When you want to go on a date with someone, do not say " I would like to ask you for a date."
 Step 2: Imagine what he/she thinks.
           (She might not be interested in going out with me. But I know she loves Italian food.)
 Step 3: Ask for something that match his/her interest.
           ("I know a very good Italian restaurant. Do you want me to take you there?")
-Seven points to imagine someone's mind.
 1. His/Her interests/benefit.
     ("We can serve you freshly baked bread. Could you wait for about five minutes? ")
2. Something to avoid his/her damage/loss.
    ("Do not step in the lawn, or your clothes will become smelly from pesticide.")
3. Freedom of choice ("Which do you like? Pasta or pizza?")
4. Esteem needs ("Your presentation skill is great. Could you join this project?")
5. "Only you" ("We offer this only for you, because you are so and so.")
6. Team work ("Let's do this." "Why don't you do this together with me?")
7. Gratitude ("Thank you for your day-to-day support. I'm wondering if you would do me a favor.")

What answer you'll get depends 90% on how you communicate #1

Posting on this blog is my daily 30-minute training to write in English. But for me it's hard to come up with a topic to write everyday.

So, I decided to write summaries of a book: 伝え方が9割 (What answer you'll get depends 90% on how you communicate).

One chapter for a day.

 Chapter One: There is the art of communication.-- Why are the answers different even though you request for same thing?

-The art of communication increases the probability of YES.
-Most people have not trained themselves for good communication.
-You can arrange words to move someone's emotion. It is like cooking recipes.
-The skill to communicate your message effectively is much more critical than any other skills.
-Personal messages matter: e.g. A waitress's recommendation draws customers' attention more than the restaurant's one.
-"Correct" language you've leaned at school does not work in the practical world.

Simple and wholesome beauty

民藝（Mingei, meaning ordinary people's crafts) is one of my interests.
The term was coined by 柳宗悦（Soetsu Yanagi) who was a Japanese art critic, philosopher (1889-1961).
The word mingei refers to a concept and a movement to advocate folk crafts such as textile and pottery that have been developed originally in a specific region and manufactured by anonymous craftsmen in this industrialized and uniform world. Mingei focuses the simple and wholesome beauty that resides in traditional easy-to-use daily articles.

I want to visit 日本民藝館（The Japan Folk Crafts Museum）in Tokyo, where many master pieces of mingei are exhibited, but the COVID-19 situation in Tokyo makes me hesitate.

Sunny Sunday

It's a sunny Sunday, finally! I'm pretty fine and feel happy this morning. I think I can be free from the meteorotropic disease today. Low pressure systems always make me feel lassitude and sometimes triggers my headache. (Maybe it's a very light type of high-altitude disease.) So, I can tell that bad weather is approaching like a barometer. It's convenient. Anyway, I have to weed today.

Weeding on sunny days, reading on rainy days

It is heavily raining outside now. Such dismal weather has been continuing for about two weeks. These days, my lifestyle is like "晴耕雨読" i.e. "Farming on sunny days, reading on rainy days", since the outbreak of COVID-19. ...It's a little exaggerated; not farming, but just weeding. I'm growing only three plants of eggplant.

Fresh start

What a long time has passed since I gave up being the writer of this blog! I hereto declare a fresh start of pursue of the Long and Winding Road. It is "一粒万倍日" today based on the Chinese Yin-Yang and Five Element Theories, which means a seed planted today will grow 10.000 fold. It is the best day to start something.

The Earthquake #1 -- On That Day

On March 11th, 2011, the unprecedented earthquake hit the north-east region of Japan.
I have wanted to write about it for this blog, but I couldn’t do it.
Eventually, it took me more than half a year to organize my thoughts in a stable mind, and to write about the earthquake followed by the nuclear accidents. I’m still not sure what to write. Anyway, I decided to start writing.

On that moment, I was working on the 3rd floor in an office building in Nagoya city which is located in the central part of Japan. I felt quake. The building seemed to sway. It continued for several minutes. Earthquake itself is not rare as we often have small ones. But at that time, I thought it was unusual. So, I checked it up on the Internet to find that unprecedentedly huge earthquake hit the northern part of Japan.

Communications to our Tokyo branch office were almost down. A coworker looked pale and said “My boyfriend is in that area. Emails and phone calls to him cannot be connected.”

After leaving the office, I found that all my family members and close friends were fine. But the heartbreaking scenes of the earthquake and tsunami, and images of the suffering areas were repeatedly shown on TV, which made me cry.

I was also looking at the Internet. I gathered information even though I could do nothing about it. Especially, my “time line” of the Twitter was like a stream of screaming voices.

“Please spread this tweet! We are isolated on the roof of a building! Water is about to wash us away!” “Help me! We are waiting for rescues!” “I’m searching for my husband. If somebody knows where he is, please tweet!”

I still feel acute pain and depression by remembering that even after 6 month has passed.
And I think something in my world has changed.
No, my world hasn’t changed.

My perception toward the relationship between me and the world has changed.

How was it changed…?

Dormitory Effect?

Now, my cats are in their loving season. Four of my five cats are female and cry out veeery loudly for boyfriends. Their troat makes me mad!!
One of them, Chibi, is 11 y/o and the oldest. That means she is middle-aged. She had been a meek and peaceful cat. She never cried loudly even in the “loving season” before. However, at last, she became the loudest cat in my house, after three other young female cats (6 months old) started crying loudly for love for the first time in their lives. Chibi’s violent troat sounds like saying “I am much sexier than those heifers!”
One of my friends says that other young female cats influenced Chibi and that is called “dormitory effect.”
Hey, Chibi, I understand you are sexy enough. So, please be quiet!!!

Chibi, 11 year-old (middle-aged) cat, is calm only when she is sleeping

My Furred Family

My husband and I have five cats for now –Shiro (means “White” in Japanese), Chibi (“Small”), Momo (“Peach”), Kuri (“Chestnut”) and Kaki (“Persimmon”).
We used to have two more cats and a dog, but they have already passed away.
I want to write about those “furred family”, one by one, because they are like our children or friends, and give us very precious time and dramatic life.