Japan’s Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) launched a massive $400 million national program aimed at building fifth-generation computers. These machines were designed to natively execute logical operations (using the Prolog language) and handle advanced knowledge bases, sparking geopolitical panic and forcing the US and Europe to aggressively resume AI funding.
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