Manufacturing has been a longstanding pillar of progress for humankind. From the Industrial Revolution over 200 years ago to today, manufacturing has had a profound impact on our lives, made possible by its unrelenting innovation. Now, manufacturing is facing one of the most exciting, unmatched, and daunting transformations in its history due to artificial intelligence…
Salesforce is updating its Data Cloud with vector database and Einstein Copilot Search capabilities in an effort to help enterprises use unstructured data for analysis. The customer relationship management (CRM) software provider’s Data Cloud, which is a part of the company’s Einstein 1 platform, is targeted at helping enterprises consolidate and align customer data. The…
Artificial intelligence can become a powerful tool to meet the goal of the Paris Agreement of limiting the increase in global average temperature to less than 2°C above pre-industrial levels, for which it is essential to immediately reduce emissions, fast and deep in all productive sectors. Thanks to the special ability of AI to collect,…
As CIOs seek to achieve economies of scale in the cloud, a risk inherent in many of their strategies is taking on greater importance of late: consolidating on too few if not just a single major cloud vendor. And while vendor lock-in has long been a key issue in the cloud, especially for organizations that…
The harsh, remote landscape of Alaska’s North Slope does not evoke thoughts of digital transformation. At yet when it is home to many of your company’s assets, as is the case for ConocoPhillips, sometimes the best IT strategy is to bring technologies closer to the edge. “Aside from being extremely cold, working on the Slope…
I leader del settore tech hanno sempre avuto una responsabilità sul fronte economico-finanziario e, allo stesso tempo, anche su quello della soddisfazione delle richieste di tecnologia da parte dell’azienda. Ma, negli ultimi anni, con l’intensificarsi degli sforzi di trasformazione digitale, i CIO hanno avuto meno occasioni per fermarsi e rivalutare la situazione finanziaria dell’IT. “Alcune…
新型ATMの大きな目玉のひとつとなっているのが2024年からスタートする本人確認システムだ。 簡単に仕組みを説明すると、顔認証機能付きカメラで撮影した利用者の画像と、ICリーダーやスキャナーで読み取った本人確認資料(運転免許証、マイナンバーカード、在留期限カード等)を、精度の高い認証エンジンで照会、犯罪収益移転防止法で定められた厳格な本人確認業務を24時間365日行えるという仕組みになっている。手続きが完了すれば入出金は顔認証のみ(厳密には別途もう一段階認証用のコードの入力が必要)で行える。 こうした仕組みを支えているのが新型ATMで初めて導入されたAI技術だ。利用されているのは「NEC the WISE」。NECが誇る最先端のAI技術だ。中でも「Neo Face」として製品化された顔認証技術は世界トップクラスの実力。2009年から2022年の間に開催された米NIST(National Institute of Standards and Technology、米国国立標準技術研究所)のコンテストなどで7回、No. 1を獲得。顔認証の精度と高速度アルゴリズムには高い評価がある。現在では成田空港の顔認証システムでも活用されている。 新型ATMは顔認証以外にもNECの最新技術が数多く搭載されている。「⁺(plus)エリア」と呼ばれる操作エリア(手元にある小さなモニター)もその一つだ。 例えば本人確認する際には、「⁺(plus)エリア」で免許証やマイナンバーカードを読み取って口座開設や住所変更時に必要な本人確認を行う。 AIの導入は顔認証だけでなくさまざまな可能性が生まれている。 ATMの稼働率、99.8%を実現した現金需要やATMの故障の予測にAIを活用。金融犯罪行為を自動検知するとともに、コールセンターでモニタリングを行うことで徹底的な防犯対策をとっている。 システム開発に詳しいAIコンサルタントでConvergence Lab.の代表取締役CEOの木村優志氏は次のように分析する。 「今回の新型ATMは顔認証によるキャッシュカードレスというのが最大のポイントだと思います。少子高齢化の中でカードも必要なくお金の出し入れができれば、ユーザー体験は大きく変わり、特に高齢者には大きなメリットがあると思います」 果たしてセブン銀行の新型ATMはどのような発展を遂げるのか、その成り行きを注目したい。
Certinia, a developer of software for service businesses, is using AI and automation to extend the capabilities of its tools for report-building or planning and analysis beyond the financial sphere and into operations, too. The company offers a suite of enterprise SaaS applications for services companies, including ERP, professional services automation, customer success, and configure-price-quote…
Thomson Reuters is in the information business, and has been for a long time. Thomson Corporation was founded in 1934 as a newspaper company, and Reuters was founded even earlier, in 1851, to transmit stock prices. The emergence of the Internet could have been a death blow, but the company survived — and thrived. Over…
Axel Johnson International is an industrial group within Axel Johnson, which also owns Swedish food retailer Axfood and Dustin, the online IT partner in the Nordics and Benelux, among others. The group develops and acquires industrial companies in selected niche markets, including just over 200 companies in six different business areas with a focus on, among…