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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

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

Getting the Best from Reliable Hardware with Software Defined, Part 2 -Utilization of Open Source Software Within and Outside the Company Increases Overall Strength

We are surrounded by products that offer additional or updated functions defined by software. One is the Apple Watch, hardware that uses sensors and an electrocardiogram app—software—to detect atrial …

2023/05/24

Getting the Best from Reliable Hardware with Software Defined, Part 1 -Redefine how Value is Created, Transform Product Creation

With a market capitalization of over $1 trillion*, Tesla is the frontrunner in the automotive industry. It has achieved this through innovation. In addition to their reliability as hardware, its cars …

2023/05/17

Superconducting Motors are on the Flight Path to Carbon Neutral Planes, Part2 -The next step is to fly with them

The aviation industry aims to reduce CO₂ emissions from international flights by 15% from 2024 on, benchmarked against 2019, and to cut them to net zero by 2050. In Part 1 of this two-part article we …

2023/04/19

Superconducting Motors are on the Flight Path to Carbon Neutral Planes, Part1 – Breaking Down Barriers No One has Overcome, for the Future of Aircraft

In October 2022, the International Civil Aviation Organization, the UN specialized agency that coordinates and develops international air navigation and travel, set new targets for reducing CO₂ emissi…

2023/04/07

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

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