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 – Sony Corporation has implemented basic research and development of artificial intelligence (AI) and aims to create an AI that expands human imagination and creativity.

Minapim by Hernan Valenzuela: Sony’s goal is to “fill the world with the power of creativity and technology.” The company bets on Artificial Intelligence,  technology that will play an important role for humanity.  Sony mission is to “unleash AI’s imagination and creativity”. Sony AI is accelerating research and development in this area, combining Sony Group’s imaging and sensing technology, robotic technology and entertainment assets such as movies, music and games. The goal is to contribute to the creation of new fields. In the future, it aims to transcend Sony’s commercial domain and contribute to global problem solving.

Sony role in AI conducts a number of exploratory research related to key topics, including iconic projects and other AI ethics in the physical real world and virtual domains. The main project starts in three areas: games, images and sensors and gastronomy. In particular, the company seeks to apply AI technology to games and image sensors to add additional corporate value. Sony promotes research and development in close collaboration with relevant Sony Group operating companies. .

Sony plans to invite and hire top AI researchers and engineers from around the world to implement these projects and promote creative research. Sony believes that true innovation can be realized by a team of diverse cultures whose creativity and approaches are catalyzed in state-of-the-art products that meet the demands of society with the powerful influence of AI, contributing to society fair, transparent, responsible, safe and secure.

AI at Cooking

The company has already begun work on a medium to long-term project to explore new possibilities for “cooking” stimulated by AI and robotics. There is a world in which humans and robots collaborate, rather than just emphasizing the functions and efficiency of robotics. The introduction of various sensory technologies in the culinary field and the analysis of the senses of sight, taste, hearing, smell and touch will lead to the science of the five senses.

The study provides learning to explore the roots of medicinal food sources. An AI / Robotics project that is advancing cooperation and cooperation with internal and external partners, based on advanced technology collaboration with Carnegie Mellon University in the United States.

Sony AI in India

Hiroaki Kitano
Sony Corporation Director,
Sony Computer Science Institute

Sony recently announced the opening of India’s applied AI research center in 2020, will open its first research center in India in 2020 to study the application of artificial intelligence technology to companies.  The Tokyo-based company will establish the center in Bengaluru, known as Silicon Valley in India, in the southern state of Karnataka, according to a company statement released Thursday.

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Masahiro Fujita
Senior Chief Researcher, Sony Corporation
AI Collaboration Office

The center will develop adaptive AI technologies in the entertainment field, where the company provides movies and videos in the country, a company spokesman told NNA last week.

“With Bengaluru as our fulcrum, we want to strengthen our research and development capacity and competitiveness,” he said.

Sony’s software development subsidiary, Sony India Software Center Pvt. Ltd., is also located in the city. The new center will hire about 10 people in the first fiscal year. Sony plans to open similar centers in various locations in India later, while collaborating with local universities and individual researchers to motivate and promote research talent, according to the statement. Sony’s decision comes after more than 20 years developing software in the country.

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Source: Sony Corporation

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