How NTT Research has shifted more basic R&D into AI for the enterprise | Kazu Gomi interview
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Kazu Gomi, president and CEO of NTT Research in Silicon Valley, has been increasing his company’s investment in AI research and development (R&D), focusing on projects including an AI inference chip design, a new Physics of AI group, and using photonics to improve energy efficiency of AI data centres.
Speaking to VentureBeat last week, Gomi also discussed synthetic data’s role in developing AI and the impact of AI on corporate operations, as well as the progress of research projects, including a digital twin of the human heart and the potential for photonic computing to make data centres more energy efficient.
His comments come after Nvidia’s CEO Jensen Huang highlighted the potential for AI to change the way that computers are used.
It was also reported this week that the University of Washington’s Center for Dialysis Innovation has created a dialysis machine that uses AI to closely monitor a patient’s blood and adjust the procedure accordingly.
The AI quickly learns to recognise patterns in the blood that are indicators of septic shocks and can prevent the shocks by automatically adjusting the dialysis machine settings.