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

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

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
The story behind Toshiba’s multi-decade campaign to champion Japanese culture in the UK

The story behind Toshiba’s multi-decade campaign to champion Japanese culture in the UK

On display in The Toshiba Gallery of Japanese Art of London’s Victoria Albert (VA) museum, stands a suit of armour in Haramaki style. It’s an arresting sight; fashioned from deep blues, golds, and a …

2023/03/10
Battery Energy Storage System Monitoring Technology, the Driving Force behind the Increasing Penetration of Renewable Energy – A Growing Presence Spurred by the Emergence of the Electricity Demand-supply Balancing Market

Battery Energy Storage System Monitoring Technology, the Driving Force behind the Increasing Penetration of Renewable Energy – A Growing Presence Spurred by the Emergence of the Electricity Demand-supply Balancing Market

In July 2020, torrential rains swept through western and northern Japan, and in the following month a temperature of 54.4C was recorded in California’s Death Valley, the highest ever recorded on the p…

2023/01/25
Digitally Connecting Hardware and Software – Toshiba’s Efforts to Solve Sustainability Issues

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?

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
AI Coordinators Hold the Key to Introducing AI, Part 1 -Introducing a Group of AI Specialists that Matches Needs with Seeds

AI Coordinators Hold the Key to Introducing AI, Part 1 -Introducing a Group of AI Specialists that Matches Needs with Seeds

In 2016, an important event occurred in the history of AI. AlphaGo, an AI software program that plays the board game Go, trounced the world champion in a landslide victory. This news of AI’s progress …

2022/11/16
Toshiba’s Commitment to a Carbon-Neutral Future

Toshiba’s Commitment to a Carbon-Neutral Future

Efforts to counteract the global issue of climate change have carbon neutrality—reduction of greenhouse gases to zero—into the mainstream in Europe and around the world. At the same time, driven in pa…

2022/10/28
The future of medicine set into motion by the Yamagata Model, a new cancer treatment technology: Taking on the challenge of global standardization of heavy ion therapy equipment

The future of medicine set into motion by the Yamagata Model, a new cancer treatment technology: Taking on the challenge of global standardization of heavy ion therapy equipment

“Music plays in the treatment room, and it is a relaxing environment. If nobody had told me, I wouldn’t have known I was being irradiated. There’s no pain and the irradiation time is short, so I’m gla…

2022/07/20
The Strategic Map of “Toshiba of Technology”<br>―Accumulated R&D Will Not Let us Down

The Strategic Map of “Toshiba of Technology”
―Accumulated R&D Will Not Let us Down

Numerous social issues confront us, including natural disasters amplified by climate change, and how to manage the new normal of COVID-19. Japan must also contend with the problem of a fast shrinking …

2022/02/18