Artificial intelligence (AI) showing a dramatic spread by the advent of deep learning has an enormous impact on routine tasks such as image recognition. In many fields, AI is no longer a state of the art, but it is becoming more commoditized. However, treating AI as a “black box” and applying it without direction only leads to failure. Under such circumstances, in order to truly make use of artificial intelligence for research and development and business, it is necessary to understand what kind of task assignment and what type of artificial intelligence technology to apply. This session will invite the leading experts who are active in industry and medical application fields to discuss what kinds of strategies should be established for the effective application of AI.

With attention focused on the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, this session invites the participation of leaders in the automotive, information and communication industries, which are poised to trigger the top technological innovations. The session will cover future technologies and the importance of collaboration in developing them. To promote open innovation, which is reputed to be difficult in terms of producing successful results in Japan, the discussion will aim at finding missing pieces that promise to be key for industry and universities to achieve success.