TOKYO, May 25, 2022 — One of Japan’s foremost thinkers and practitioners of AI systems, Takashi Ikegami, discusses his research on artificial life and artificial intelligence. Ikegami explained the development of his experiments with Alter, Alter2, and Alter3 — androids with AI or lifelike attributes — and discussed the gap between human and machine intelligence as well as the creativity of machines. Jesper Koll, chair of the policy committee at Asia Society Japan, hosted the program. (1 hr., 17 min.)