The Tokyo Institute of Technology and others have announced that they will start developing high-performance generative artificial intelligence using the supercomputer “Fugaku.” The world’s fastest calculation speed.
Tokyo Institute of Technology Professor Rio Yokota (High-Performance Computing Advanced Applications) said, “Using high-performance Fugaku to accelerate the development of generative AI, we aim to build an environment that can produce the world’s best AI.” The person leading the project made the announcement on May 22.
Generative AI has become widely known thanks to the AI chatbot ChatGPT, developed by US startup OpenAI.
As computers and generative AI tools become more sophisticated in their ability to learn from vast amounts of text, they are gaining popularity, primarily among US companies.
However, major generative AI tools are mostly input with English information, so they tend to give misinformation when asked about Japanese history and people.
The announced project is to input Japanese information into AI.
Researchers participating in the project will disclose generative AI development methods, thereby promoting the development of domestic AI.
RIKEN and Fujitsu, which jointly developed Fugaku, and Tohoku University, which is researching language processing AI, also participated in the project.
They plan to use Fugaku to develop ways to improve the performance of generative AI fed with text from the Japanese version of Wikipedia, free online encyclopedias, and other Japanese sources.
The researchers of the project will announce the generative AI to be developed by the end of this fiscal year and its development method so that domestic companies and research institutes can utilize it.
Researchers say they will continue their research to create an AI that can compete with the AI created by Google and others.
This project also aims to find a solution to the problems ChatGPT faces, such as sometimes giving completely inaccurate answers.
