**”It is not an organization of our department.” Statement from the University of Tokyo’s Department of Electronics and Information Engineering linked to the “University of Tokyo AI Research Group”**
On September 26, the University of Tokyo Faculty of Engineering Department of Electronics and Information Engineering and Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering announced that the AI â??â??Research Group of the University of Tokyo (Artificial Intelligence Research Group of the University of Tokyo), which has caused controversy by reproducing the voice of the late Mr. Shinzo Abe with AI. In relation to the fact that the source of the website contained a link to the department’s website, a statement was released stating that “(the study group) is not an organization of the department.”
The University of Tokyo’s Department of Electronics and Information Engineering and Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering said, “We have not been able to confirm the relationship between the members of our department and these organizations at this time, but we are continuing to investigate.”
The University of Tokyo AI Research Group is a self-proclaimed group consisting of volunteers from the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Engineering at the University of Tokyo and students from six universities including Kyoto University. The synthetic voice of the late Mr. Shinzo Abe has been released, causing controversy .
As of the 26th, the Public Relations Division of the University of Tokyo had no knowledge of the group, and it does not appear to be an official organization of the University of Tokyo.
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