2025-08-12
21 分钟The Economist
Hello and welcome to The Intelligence from The Economist.
I'm your host, Jason Palmer.
Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.
For a long while in Japan, after the bursting of the asset price bubble in the 1990s
and a long era of deflation, investment just didn't look smart.
With inflation now on the way up, all that is changing.
Across the board, Japanese people have investing fever.
And here are some words that until recently didn't really go together in America.
Indie Wrestling League.
The big purveyors of the country's fakest sport are on the ropes.
And lots of smaller, frankly bonkers outfits are drawing dedicated crowds.
But first...
For nearly seven decades of work by artificial intelligence researchers, not a whole lot happened.
There was even an AI winter when many thought the field was just dead.
Boy, did that change quick.
In 2017, Google researchers came up with something called a transformer.
No, not that kind.
It's a mathematical thing.
The next year, a little American company called OpenAI had turned that thing into a generative pre-trained transformer.