{"id":636,"date":"2022-07-20T14:06:36","date_gmt":"2022-07-20T12:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eu-japan.ai\/?p=636"},"modified":"2022-07-20T14:06:36","modified_gmt":"2022-07-20T12:06:36","slug":"a-nedo-project-overview-implementation-of-ai-systems-to-increase-labour-productivity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eu-japan.ai\/ja\/a-nedo-project-overview-implementation-of-ai-systems-to-increase-labour-productivity\/","title":{"rendered":"A NEDO Project Overview: Implementation of AI Systems to Increase Labour Productivity"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"row vc_row wpb_row vc_row-fluid mpc-row\"><div class=\"bs-vc-wrapper\"><div class=\"wpb_column bs-vc-column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-12 mpc-column\" data-column-id=\"mpc_column-356a13d7a4c2025\"><div class=\"bs-vc-wrapper wpb_wrapper\">\n\t<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element  bs-vc-block\">\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #999999;\">Photo by Pickawood on Unsplash<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">NEDO (New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organisation of Japan) is a national research and development agency&nbsp;that promotes technological development&nbsp;and innovation for a sustainable society.&nbsp;Since its&nbsp;establishment in 1980,&nbsp;NEDO&nbsp;has been&nbsp;formulating technology strategies,&nbsp;drafting&nbsp;and planning projects, structuring and administrating systems involving the government, academics, and the industrial sector, and sharing its evaluations and assessments, as well as distributing funds.<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">NEDO is active in a diverse range of fields including renewable energy, robotics, and biotechnology,&nbsp;in addition to&nbsp;supporting start-ups.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Basic research and development for the realisation&nbsp;of AI systems that grow and evolve together with&nbsp;humans<\/b><b>&nbsp;<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 2020, NEDO launched a five-year project titled &ldquo;Technology development project on next-generation artificial intelligence evolving together with humans&rdquo;. The project aims to increase labour productivity and address labour shortages resulting from Japan&rsquo;s rapid population decline.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Introducing AI&nbsp;technologies&nbsp;can provide effective&nbsp;solutions. However, implementation remains limited due to:&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<ul><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a lack of established&nbsp;methods to evaluate and manage the quality of AI systems&nbsp;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">difficulties in collecting accurate and precise data&nbsp;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the high cost of data processing <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To resolve these issues, the project specifically addresses the three areas as follows:<\/span><\/p>\n<ol><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Developing&nbsp;core&nbsp;technologies for AI systems that evolve with humans&nbsp;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Establishing trustable AI evaluation and management methods&nbsp;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Developing AI that can be easily introduced and built&nbsp; <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The&nbsp; project&rsquo;s objective is to help boost Japan&rsquo;s labour productivity by at least 20% by 2030 (in comparison with 2020) and&nbsp;accelerate implementation&nbsp;of AI systems&nbsp;in society.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element  vc_custom_1658318758245 bs-vc-block\">\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<p><span style=\"color: #050599;\"><strong>Authors:&nbsp;<\/strong>Mei Maruyama and Carole Nicolas<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #050599;\"><strong>Links:<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nedo.go.jp\/content\/100885591.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #050599;\">https:\/\/www.nedo.go.jp\/content\/100885591.pdf<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo by Pickawood on Unsplash NEDO (New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organisation of Japan) is a national research and development agency&nbsp;that promotes technological development&nbsp;and innovation for a sustainable society.&nbsp;Since its&nbsp;establishment in 1980,&nbsp;NEDO&nbsp;has been&nbsp;formulating technology strategies,&nbsp;drafting&nbsp;and planning projects, structuring and administrating systems involving the government, academics, and the industrial sector, and sharing its evaluations and","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":637,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[64,37,123,121,58,118,119,122,120],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eu-japan.ai\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eu-japan.ai\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eu-japan.ai\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eu-japan.ai\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eu-japan.ai\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=636"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eu-japan.ai\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":638,"href":"https:\/\/www.eu-japan.ai\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636\/revisions\/638"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eu-japan.ai\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eu-japan.ai\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eu-japan.ai\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eu-japan.ai\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}