2017年7月18日火曜日

Seeking a New Infrastructure Investment Strategy

  In the Nikkei newspaper, University of Tokyo professor Noriyuki Yanagawa wrote an article titled, “With IT Development, Investment will also Change.” This is a very important point.  His argument is as follows. 1. IT such as the Internet, applications, social networking, etc., is already becoming the base of an energized sharing economy and block chain. Google and Amazon, etc., have developed open source AI and related services. 2. These new technologies are infrastructure that stimulates investment. New types of infrastructure like...

2017年7月4日火曜日

AI Research and Development Enters a New Phase

 According to a paper entitled “The Collaboration of 3 Ministries for AI Research,” 3 government ministries, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, and the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry are collaborating to promote basic research, applied research, standardization, and human resources development in the field of artificial intelligence.  Research and development, as well as demonstrations, will be conducted with the goal of implementation of the Internet...