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The impact of an AI that rejects everything but acceptable products -Will it be the savior of digital transformation in manufacturing?

Faced with an unpredictable future, one of most-needed abilities in today’s age of VUCA—volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity—is the capacity for self-transformation. Manufacturers working…

2023/10/16

Creative Thinking Realizes a New Normal and the World’s Most Accurate AI, Part2 -Reducing AI training data while improving performance

AI-based image recognition is already part of our lives. What is not often realized is that to get it to work with a high degree of accuracy requires extensive training with large volumes of data. Thi…

2023/08/23

Creative Thinking Realizes a New Normal and the World’s Most Accurate AI, Part 1 -AI Image Recognition No Longer Needs Huge Volumes of Training Data

The market for AI is expanding rapidly in Japan. Some predict that by 2025, it will swell to 1.9 trillion yen, about double the FY 2020 level, as AI is increasingly used to solve social issues. In Mar…

2023/08/09

Market Dominant Toshiba’s Ceramic Balls: Driving Electrification of Mobility with AI Quality Inspection System

The more people use electric vehicles (EVs), the closer we get to carbon neutrality, and thankfully, sales for these vehicles have been growing worldwide in recent years. One issue that can occur with…

2023/07/19

How Toshiba Is Promoting the Widespread Adoption of Renewable Energy – Predicting Power Generation Volumes and Developing Power Trading Strategies with AI

If we are going to counter climate change, its droughts, heat waves and torrential rain, we need to cut greenhouse gas emissions to zero, and fast. Over 150 countries have target years for realizing c…

2023/06/22

How Do You Ensure the Quality of AI Systems?, Part 2 -Our mission to improve AI literacy

The phrase “garbage in, garbage out,” GIGO, is a useful reminder that AI systems trained on low quality data will pick up unwanted features, resulting in poorly realized AI models. In Part 1, we loo…

2023/03/23

How Do You Ensure the Quality of AI Systems?, Part 1　- Prepping Data, Ethics and the Law—Identifying the Key Concerns

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been a part of our collective vocabulary for a while now, and its technological advances are irreversible. We need to think deeply about these advances, on the assumpt…

2023/03/16

Maximizing the Lifetime and Usefulness of Lithium-ion Batteries – AI Monitoring Technologies that Support Batteries Extended Service Life

The Glasgow Climate Accord was adopted at the 26th Conference of the Parties (COP26) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) held in Glasgow in the UK. The accord incorpo…

2023/01/13

Digitally Connecting Hardware and Software – Toshiba’s Efforts to Solve Sustainability Issues

“DX is no longer a fad, it is a trend.” These were the words Mitsubishi Research Institute used in a report on the status of the corporate promotion of DX – digital transformation – and to summarize t…

2022/12/27

AI Coordinators Hold the Key to Introducing AI, Part 2 -What Future Do AI Coordinators Envisage?

A circular economy emphasizes the repair, refurbishment, reuse and recycling of materials and products to the fullest extent possible, to promote sustainability. To promote this, the Ellen MacArthur F…

2022/11/22

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