At the Japan Times Advanced Technology Forum held in Tokyo on May 31, Akira Sakakibara, chief technology officer of Microsoft Japan Co. and the president of Microsoft Development Co. spoke about what artificial intelligence can do and machine learning processes, and about future possibilities and challenges. The forum was supported by the Ogasawara Foundation for the Promotion of Science and Engineering as one of its subsidized projects.
"The democratization of artificial intelligence is a key concept in the provision of our artificial intelligence technologies. By this we mean that any industry, organization, company or individual should be able to benefit from the power of AI," Sakakibara said.
Over the last several years, Microsoft has achieved major accomplishments at the annual ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge, which is organized by ImageNet, an online project that supports visual object recognition software research around the world.