Research and development in AI and machine learning, sensing, and health and medical technologies

「The company is developing an analytics platform for customer-behavior data models using AI application areas such as image analysis, dialogue support, and forecasting, together with big-data platform technologies, and is researching data-management-related technologies and analytics expertise. It is also developing applied technologies for the business use of generative AI, acquiring generative AI application technologies specialized by industry and use case, and researching agent and multi-agent technologies.」

「The company provides Azure OpenAI Service Starter Set Plus, a service that creates an environment enabling efficient business use of generative AI by reducing customers' workloads through stronger information-management controls. In addition to CLOUDForesight® services for creating a security-conscious OpenAI environment, the company strengthened functions for expanding generative AI use cases, including searching internal policies and procedures.」

「In response to growing expectations for generative AI, adoption of Azure OpenAI Service Starter Set Plus, a service that creates a corporate environment for using ChatGPT, is expanding. The service provides hands-on support for creating secure generative AI environments and use-case scenarios.」

「The company is also accelerating initiatives for customer digital transformation using AI. For financial institutions, it is conducting technical validation of generative AI applications to improve the communication skills of branch-counter staff. For manufacturers, it has partnered with Taiwan-based Profet AI to promote smart factories and manufacturing digital transformation.」

「The company provides Azure OpenAI Service Starter Set Plus, a service that creates an environment for efficient business use of ChatGPT by reducing customers' workloads through stronger information-management controls. It proposes optimal ways to incorporate generative AI technologies into business systems and, through its AI Center, supports the promotion of digital transformation using generative AI from the stage of formulating corporate systems strategies.」

「The company is developing an analytics platform for customer-behavior data models using AI application areas such as image analysis, dialogue support, and forecasting, together with big-data platform technologies, and is researching data-strategy-related technologies and analytics expertise. It is also developing and implementing applied technologies for the business use of generative AI.」

「In addition to the research and development described in the previous fiscal year's securities report on technologies that drive behavioral change and contribute to resolving social issues and stimulating economic activity, the company is placing greater emphasis on research and development of data-utilization platforms that improve the quality of decision-making by policymakers.」

「In addition to the research and development described in the previous fiscal year's securities report on technologies that drive behavioral change and contribute to resolving social issues and stimulating economic activity, the company is placing greater emphasis on research and development of data-utilization platforms that improve the quality of decision-making by policymakers.」

「• In anticipation of an increased risk of accidents that are difficult to predict, the company is conducting research and development into new safety-analysis methods focused on trustworthiness, a multidimensional characteristic used to verify reliability and safety. • It is researching and developing a new inference system that can reach appropriate conclusions without producing unreasonable judgments even when data are incomplete, including contradictory, ambiguous, or missing data. • It is researching and developing technologies based on human thought, movement, psychology, and physical characteristics to help people understand their own potential and make better choices.」

「The company is advancing efforts to commercialize a system that uses AI technology to automatically determine deterioration factors and the soundness of bridges from photographs taken during bridge inspections, store bridge specifications and inspection results in a database, and automate the process through preparation of inspection reports following final confirmation by experts, thereby improving productivity in the construction industry.」

「In November 2019, the company entered into a capital and business alliance with 株式会社ALBERT, which has strengths in AI algorithm development and big-data analytics. Going forward, starting with infrastructure areas such as distribution, transportation, and energy, the company will advance joint proposals for new businesses and product development using AI and analytics technologies for existing and prospective customers of the 日本ユニシス Group.」

「BRaVS is being used for AI technology to automate equipment patrols at a thermal power plant operated as a demonstration project by Tohoku Electric Power Company,Incorporated, and for AI-based image diagnostics that determine deterioration factors and structural soundness in bridge inspections, which the company is jointly researching with 日本海コンサルタント株式会社. The use of AI technology in bridge inspections was selected for the commercialization promotion support program of the Ishikawa Industrial Development Support Organization (ISICO), and the company is proceeding with commercialization of the system targeted for summer 2020.」

「• The company is researching and developing new technologies focused on next-generation safety, decision-making, and ways of living for a future society formed through the realization of systems that highly integrate cyberspace (virtual space) and physical space (the real world), known as cyber-physical systems (CPS). • It is also conducting research and development in common-sense AI, complex natural language processing based on machine learning and linguistics, and technologies that support ideation and decision-making.」

「The company is conducting research and development in common-sense AI, complex natural language processing based on machine learning and linguistics, and technologies that support ideation and decision-making, with the aim of creating a society in which people and machines cooperate and collaborate, allowing people to focus on more creative activities.」

「• Research and development in machine learning, including common-sense reasoning, complex natural language processing using specialized knowledge sources, analysis of information received through the five senses, motion analysis, probabilistic and statistical modeling of images, audio, and natural language, and deep learning, with the aim of realizing robots and software agents with advanced cognitive abilities that understand human speech and gestures, act autonomously, and participate in human communication. • Research and development in sensing technologies, including image processing and image recognition, for acquiring and assigning meaning to various data typified by IoT/M2M, as well as foundational data-management technologies such as concise data structures. In addition, the company is researching and developing object-recognition technologies using design data and two- and three-dimensional point-cloud data by advancing its CAD and CG technologies, along with prevention and diagnostic support technologies for multiple diseases, including diabetes, ischemic heart disease, and lung cancer.」

「The company is also advancing new initiatives to expand its business areas, including enhancing digital content services that support tourism-related businesses and launching full-scale AI services designed to support people.」

「The company is conducting research and development in machine learning, including common-sense reasoning, complex natural language processing using specialized knowledge sources, analysis of information received through the five senses, motion analysis, probabilistic and statistical modeling of images, audio, and natural language, and deep learning, with the aim of realizing robots and software agents with advanced cognitive abilities that understand human speech and gestures, act autonomously, and participate in human communication.」