Artificial Intelligence Research Activities and Directions in the NTT Group

The research and development of artificial intelligence (AI) at NTT is advancing along four directions: (1) Agent-AI for analyzing information issued by people and understanding intentions and emotions in that information; (2) Heart-Touching-AI for analyzing unconscious and unnoticeable aspects of a person’s mind and body and understanding deep psychological, intellectual, and instinctual states in that person; (3) Ambient-AI for analyzing and understanding just about anything in the world (objects, people, the environment) and instantaneously predicting and controlling those things; and (4) Network-AI for organically connecting and cultivating multiple types of AI and optimizing the entire social system. This article introduces the technologies supporting these four forms of AI and specific AI-related activities in the NTT Group. © 2016 Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp.. All rights reserved.