Artificial Intelligence

The Internal Affairs and Communications Ministry plans to launch an experiment next fiscal year to promote the use of artificial intelligence and other advanced technologies to streamline the administrative work of local governments, sources said.

Tokyo’s Jikei University Hospital and DeepMind Technologies Ltd., a London-based research firm, announced Thursday that they will begin developing artificial intelligence (AI) technology that can detect breast cancer at an early stage.

Artificial intelligence has moved into the world of corporate legal matters: A Tokyo-based start-up founded by young lawyers is using AI to check for omissions and mistakes in contracts, sometimes taking only one second.