The Making of Gran Turismo Sophy [English] Sony AI 2022-02-09 | Can an AI outrace the best human *Gran Turismo* drivers in the world? Meet Gran Turismo Sophy and find out how the teams at Sony AI, Polyphony Digital Inc., and Sony Interactive Entertainment worked together to create this breakthrough technology.Gran Turismo Sophy is a groundbreaking achievement for AI, but there’s more: it demonstrates the power of AI to deliver new gaming and entertainment experiences.Learn more about Gran Turismo Sophy: gran-turismo.com/world/gran-turismo-sophyGran Turismo (official site): gran-turismo.comSony AI: http://www.ai.sonyPolyphony Digital Inc.: polyphony.co.jpSony Interactive Entertainment: sie.com/en/index.html
The Research Vault | COALA: A Practical and Vision-Centric Federated Learning Platform | Sony AI Sony AI 2025-02-06 | Welcome to The Research Vault, Sony AI’s YouTube series exploring cutting-edge advancements in artificial intelligence! In this debut episode, we dive into COALA, Sony AI's federated learning platform designed to protect data privacy while revolutionizing machine learning.COALA supports over 15 computer vision tasks and incorporates dynamic learning paradigms like multi-task, semi-supervised, and continual learning. Join our researchers as they share how COALA is paving the way for privacy-preserving AI.Learn more in our bloghttps://ai.sony/blog/Unleashing-the-Potential-of-Federated-Learning-with-COALA/
Working at Sony AI: Understand Why Diversity Matters in Artificial Intelligence Development Sony AI 2024-05-20 | Sony AI believes that diversity in gender, cultural, societal, and educational background is a critical aspect of the artificial intelligence (AI) research and development process. That’s why it is important for all of our teams to be composed of individuals from a variety of backgrounds, fields, and geographies with unique perspectives on how to solve Grand Challenges in AI so that the technology can work for all members of society. Learn more about how you can join our team here. https://ai.sony/joinus/
Working at Sony AI: Make an Impact Pursuing Grand Challenges in Artificial Intelligence Sony AI 2024-05-20 | Founded by Hiroaki Kitano as a “place for Grand Challenges,” Sony AI is committed to working on artificial intelligence (AI) research and development projects that have high impact and will benefit society. To help us advance AI in pursuit of these Gran Challenges, we are looking for talented new individuals to join our team as researchers, engineers, ethicists, project managers, and many other roles. Learn more about how you can join our team here.https://ai.sony/joinus/
Working at Sony AI: Explore How Your Work Will Unleash Imagination and Creativity Through AI Sony AI 2024-05-20 | Sony AI was established to accelerate the fundamental research and development of artificial intelligence (AI) in order to enhance and augment human imagination and creativity – particularly in the realm of entertainment. Working at Sony AI, researchers, engineers, ethicists, project managers, and more help to discover and develop new AI technologies and tools aimed at empowering creators to imagine new entertainment experiences across all mediums. Learn more about how you can join our team here. https://ai.sony/joinus/
Introducing Gran Turismo Sophy 2.0 (GT Sophy) for Gran Turismo 7 Sony AI 2024-01-12 | Sony AI, in partnership with Polyphony Digital Inc. (PDI) a subsidiary of Sony Interactive Entertainment, has globally released the breakthrough AI racing agent, Gran Turismo Sophy (GT Sophy), in Gran Turismo 7 (GT7) PlayStation® racing simulation game. This new feature, named Gran Turismo Sophy 2.0, is only available for players with a PS5 console.* For more details regarding Gran Turismo Sophy, please visit the official website atgran-turismo.com/jp/gran-turismo-sophy
Importance of AI Ethics - Sony Sustainability Briefing 2022 Sony AI 2022-09-21 | Sony Group Corporation held its fifth Sustainability Briefing session to provide updates on Sony's ESG and sustainability initiatives. Alice Xiang of the AI Ethics Office and Sony AI spoke at this event and explained Sony's activities related to AI ethics, which have become increasingly important in recent years.# Sony Group AI Ethics Guidelinessony.com/en/SonyInfo/sony_ai/responsible_ai.html# Sony AI_AI Ethicshttps://ai.sony/projects/ai-ethics/# Sony AI_Join Ushttps://ai.sony/joinus/
The Team Behind GT Sophy - Part 3 - Training a Champion Sony AI 2022-09-08 | All of the training and preparation comes to a head in the third and final installment of Sony AI’s new video series, “The Team Behind GT Sophy.” In this episode, the AI racing agent GT Sophy gets a rematch against the world’s best esports champions in a rematch after falling short in its initial face off. Did the Sony AI team succeed in refining the training of their agent so that it could outpace its human opponents? Watch the thrilling conclusion!Learn more about how the researchers at Sony AI trained Gran Turismo Sophy:https://ai.sony/blog/blog-018/Watch Sony AI’s previous short film “The Making of Gran Turismo Sophy”:youtu.be/l948hMaTPuoLearn more about Sony AI:http://www.ai.sonyVisit Gran Turismo’s official site:gran-turismo.comLearn more about Gran Turismo Sophy:gran-turismo.com/world/gran-turismo-sophy
The Team Behind GT Sophy - Part 2 - Off To The Races Sony AI 2022-08-22 | Sony AI is proud to share the second installment of our new video series, “The Team Behind GT Sophy.” In this episode the team at Sony AI take the racing agent they have trained to play “Gran Turismo” and put it the ultimate test.At the April 2021 Race Together event, GT Sophy would face off against some of the finest human “Gran Turismo” players in the world. Had the team taught their AI racer to master the skills required to hold their own against the champions of esports?Hit subscribe to catch future installments!Learn more about how the researchers at Sony AI trained Gran Turismo Sophy:https://ai.sony/blog/blog-018/Watch Sony AI’s previous short film “The Making of Gran Turismo Sophy”:youtu.be/l948hMaTPuoLearn more about Sony AI:http://www.ai.sonyVisit Gran Turismo’s official site:gran-turismo.comLearn more about Gran Turismo Sophy:gran-turismo.com/world/gran-turismo-sophy
The Team Behind GT Sophy - Part 1 - Start Your Engines Sony AI 2022-08-10 | Sony AI is proud to share the first installment of our new video series, “The Team Behind GT Sophy.” This entry traces the project from its humble beginnings, when a Sony intern ran racing simulations on nine PlayStations 24 hours a day in his Tokyo apartment—and racked up an enormous electricity bill. That test run eventually led to a global team of researchers collaborating to overcome the technical challenges of training an AI to outrace the best human “Gran Turismo” players in the world.Hit subscribe to catch future installments!Learn more about how the researchers at Sony AI trained Gran Turismo Sophy:https://ai.sony/blog/blog-018/Watch Sony AI’s previous short film “The Making of Gran Turismo Sophy”:youtu.be/l948hMaTPuoLearn more about Sony AI:http://www.ai.sonyVisit Gran Turismo’s official site:gran-turismo.comLearn more about Gran Turismo Sophy:gran-turismo.com/world/gran-turismo-sophy
Gran Turismo Sophy - Lewis Hamilton Time Trial Challenge - Nürburgring Nordschleife Sony AI 2022-07-08 | The fastest lap by Gran Turismo Sophy, an AI agent, on the Lewis Hamilton Time Trial Challenge in GT Sport. The track is Nürburgring Nordschleife with the Sauber Mercedes C9 '89 car and RH tires. The lap time achieved is 5:22.975. It is roughly 17 seconds faster than Lewis Hamilton's time, 5:40.622.
Gran Turismo Sophy - Race Together Media Event [English] Sony AI 2022-02-19 | The media event where Gran Turismo Sophy, a revolutionary racing AI agent jointly developed by Sony AI, Polyphony Digital, and Sony Interactive Entertainment, was first announced and presented on February 9th, 2022.In this program, you can see the full presentation, an exhibition race between top GT drivers and GT Sophy, and the Q&A session with Sony AI COO Michael Spranger and Gran Turismo series producer Kazunori Yamauchi.【Chapter】00:00:00 Opening00:01:30 Main Presentation00:24:43 Exhibition Match00:41:50 Q&A Session下記言語による配信も行っております:[日本語] youtu.be/XqP6h2DlPjsFor more details, please refer to the link below:gran-turismo.com/world/gran-turismo-sophy
Gran Turismo Sophy - Race Together Media Event [日本語] Sony AI 2022-02-19 | 2022年2月10日、ソニーAIとポリフォニー・デジタル、ソニー・インタラクティブエンタテインメントは共同で、革新的なレーシングAIエージェント「グランツーリスモ・ソフィ（GT Sophy）」をメディア向けイベントで発表しました。発表時の「プレゼンテーション」に加え、世界トップGTドライバーとGT Sophyの「エキシビションマッチ」、世界中から参加したメディアの方々との「Q&Aセッション」の模様をお届けします。【チャプター】00:00:00 オープニング00:01:30 メインプレゼンテーション00:24:43 エキシビションマッチ00:41:50 Q&AセッションThe program is also available in the following languages:[English] youtu.be/qP1gjgtKyYc※『Gran Turismo Sophy』に関するより詳しい情報は、下記ご覧ください。gran-turismo.com/world/gran-turismo-sophy
Sony AI x Polyphony Digital Race Together - K.Yoshida Message Sony AI 2022-02-09 | *EnglishHello everyone.Today, I’m very excited to share the announcement of Sony AI’s new game AI agent - Gran Turismo Sophy.We established Sony AI in April 2020 as a fundamental research and development organization to accelerate Sony’s transformation into an AI powered, creative entertainment company.Over the past two years, researchers and engineers at Sony AI have been working closely with Polyphony Digital, the creators of Gran Turismo, and with the cloud gaming team at Sony Interactive Entertainment. Together they created a superhuman AI agent that can race competitively against the top human Gran Turismo drivers.This group collaboration, which is featured on the cover of the latest edition of Nature, is truly unique to Sony.With Sony being a creative entertainment company, we built this game AI agent for gamers. I’m also enthusiastic about this project because it demonstrates the potential for us to effectively utilize the PlayStation cloud gaming infrastructure for mass scale AI training purposes.Gran Turismo Sophy is the first major project announcement from Sony AI. I hope you are excited as I am about more news to come from Sony AI in the future - and to deliver on Sony’s Purpose to fill the world with emotion, through the power of creativity and technology.*日本語みなさん、こんにちは。ソニーの吉田です。本日は、ソニーAIの新しいゲームAIエージェント「Gran Turismo Sophy（グランツーリスモ・ソフィ）」を皆さんにご紹介できることを大変うれしく思います。AIを活用したクリエイティブエンタテインメントカンパニーとしての進化を加速するため、2020年4月に基礎研究開発を担う組織として、ソニーAIが設立されました。これまでの2年間、ソニーAIのメンバーは、グランツーリスモを製作するポリフォニー・デジタルや、ソニー・インタラクティブエンタテインメントのクラウドゲームのチームと緊密に協力してきました。そして今回トップクラスのグランツーリスモのドライバー達と対等に競争できる超人的なAIエージェントを作りだしました。世界的な総合科学誌「ネイチャー」の最新版の表紙を飾った今回のグループ内コラボレーションは、まさにソニーだから成し得たことです。ソニーはテクノロジーに裏打ちされたクリエイティブエンタテインメントカンパニーです。今回、プレイヤーのゲーム体験をさらに充実させる新たなゲームAIエージェントを開発しました。また、このプロジェクトは、プレイステーションのクラウドゲームインフラストラクチャが大規模にAIトレーニングを目的に、効果的に利用できる可能性も示しているため、その観点からも高い関心を寄せています。「Gran Turismo Sophy」は、ソニーAIによる初の重要なプロジェクト発表となります。今後、ソニーAIからさらに多くのニュースを発信し、「クリエイティビティとテクノロジーの力で、世界を感動で満たす」というソニーのPurpose（存在意義）を実現できることを、楽しみにしています。
The Making of Gran Turismo Sophy [日本語] Sony AI 2022-02-09 | AIは、世界最高峰のグランツーリスモドライバーを追い抜くことができるのか？ソニーAI、ポリフォニー・デジタル、そしてソニー・インタラクティブエンタテインメントが組織を超えてワンチームを結成し、画期的なテクノロジーを駆使して開発したGran Turismo Sophy。AIの革新的な進化のみならず、これまでにないゲーム体験やエンターテインメントを実現することでAIの力を新たなステージへと躍進させます。 Gran Turismo Sophyの詳細について：gran-turismo.com/world/gran-turismo-sophyグランツーリスモ公式ウェブサイト： gran-turismo.comソニーAI: http://www.ai.sonyポリフォニー・デジタル: polyphony.co.jpソニー・インタラクティブエンタテインメント: sie.com/jp/index.html
Sony AI - AI Ethics Flagship Project Sony AI 2022-01-05 | Sony AI – AI Ethics Flagship ProjectHi everyone, my name is Alice Xiang, and I am the Head of the AI Ethics Office in Sony Group Corporation and of our AI ethics research team in Sony AI. Today I am excited to speak with you about our AI Ethics Research Flagship. In recent years, AI ethics has become a huge topic as we’ve seen an explosion of AI technologies in our everyday lives. While many of these technologies have been very beneficial for society, this growth in the use of AI has also increased awareness an about potential risks and harms. AI ethics focuses on how to identify these sorts of risks and how to mitigate potential harms. Our AI Ethics Research Team in Sony AI conducts cutting-edge research on fairness, transparency, and accountability in AI, among other topics. Solving AI ethics issues in practice is still very challenging, and there are many fundamental questions that the research community is working to address. For example, how do you define “fairness” in a technical sense? And for any given conception of fairness, how do you ensure that an AI system is actually fair? Also, how do you explain to a person why an AI system made a particular prediction and whether that prediction is trustworthy? We are working to solve both these and other problems, both to assist the development of more ethical AI within Sony but also to contribute to the global research discourse around AI ethics. Given that this is a relatively new field, operationalizing AI ethics is challenging. Whereas in fields like data privacy and cyber security, there are now some common methods that are widely adopted across industry, we are still in the early days of AI ethics, where the best practices are still constantly evolving with new research. Thus, key to the success of our AI ethics work at Sony is the integration of research and practice. The AI ethics problems that we work on in Sony AI are directly informed by the challenges that business units are facing, and the solutions we develop will be directly be used to inform the development of more responsible AI. Our long-term goal is to make Sony a global leader in AI ethics. Sony’s mission at the intersection of entertainment and technology is uniquely well-suited to AI ethics. Our goal is to enhance and expand human creativity, rather than to replace it. Ethics, manifested through harnessing diversity and earning trust through responsible business practices, has long been a key part of Sony’s values. Our goal in the AI Ethics Office and in Sony AI is to manifest these values through our work and to lead the way to more responsible AI.
Sony AI – Imaging & Sensing Project Sony AI 2022-01-05 | Hi, my name is Peter Dürr and I am leading Sony AI’s Imaging and Sensing Flagship Project. In this project, we are working on leveraging Sony’s strengths in imaging and sensing technology.As you know, digital image sensors can be used to capture still images or to record videos, such as the one you are watching right now.But there are now also other, new types of image sensors that Sony is developing. For example, Sony’s new Intelligent Vision Sensor combines a conventional image sensor with an intelligent logic layer on a single chip. This makes it possible to build a camera that doesn't store or output any image data, but instead outputs metadata, like for example the types of objects in the field of view of the camera. This is great for systems that require low latency or low power consumption, and it also helps protect the users’ privacy.Another type of sensor is the Event Vision Sensor, where instead of measuring the intensity of the light at each pixel, we measure changes in intensity, and this allows for a much higher temporal resolution and lower latency. I think this is going to be a key to make robots move faster and interact safely with humans.At Sony AI, we are working on deeply integrating such novel image sensor technologies with intelligent algorithms, and if that sparks your interest, don’t hesitate to reach out to us at ai.sony.
Sony’s Founder’s thoughts on AI from 1960 Sony AI 2020-10-30 | Already in 1960, Sony’s Founder, Masaru Ibuka envisioned AI as the future of electronics. 60 years later, Sony AI was established to unleash human imagination and creativity with AI. --------------I was genuinely inspired when I came across this speech made by the founder of Sony, Masaru Ibuka, in which he talks about AI as the future of electronics already back in 1960. Sixty years later, we see that the future he envisioned where AI permeate our society in areas such as automotive, medicine, education and business is fast becoming a reality. At Sony AI, we our honored and proud to inherit Ibuka-san's legacy and to empower human imagination and creativity with AI. Hiroaki KitanoCEO, Sony AI
Sony’s Founder’s thoughts on AI from 1960（日本語字幕） Sony AI 2020-10-19 | Already in 1960, Sony’s Founder, Masaru Ibuka envisioned AI as the future of electronics. 60 years later, Sony AI was established to unleash human imagination and creativity with AI.--------------I was genuinely inspired when I came across this speech made by the founder of Sony, Masaru Ibuka, in which he talks about AI as the future of electronics already back in 1960. Sixty years later, we see that the future he envisioned where AI permeate our society in areas such as automotive, medicine, education and business is fast becoming a reality. At Sony AI, we our honored and proud to inherit Ibuka-san's legacy and to empower human imagination and creativity with AI. Hiroaki KitanoCEO, Sony AI
Sony’s Founder’s thoughts on AI from 1960 Sony AI 2020-10-16 | Already in 1960, Sony’s Founder, Masaru Ibuka envisioned AI as the future of electronics. 60 years later, Sony AI was established to unleash human imagination and creativity with AI.--------------I was genuinely inspired when I came across this speech made by the founder of Sony, Masaru Ibuka, in which he talks about AI as the future of electronics already back in 1960. Sixty years later, we see that the future he envisioned where AI permeate our society in areas such as automotive, medicine, education and business is fast becoming a reality. At Sony AI, we our honored and proud to inherit Ibuka-san's legacy and to empower human imagination and creativity with AI. Hiroaki KitanoCEO, Sony AI
People Sony AI 2020-06-24 | People - Learn more about Sony AI and the type of people we are looking for to join our team.
Possibilities Sony AI 2020-06-17 | Possibilities - At Sony AI, we are interested in exploring the possibilities that AI and robotics can bring to the realm of creativity.
Creativity Sony AI 2020-06-11 | Creativity - Listen to how we at Sony AI believe in augmenting human creativity with AI and other new technologies.
Synergies Sony AI 2020-06-04 | Synergy - As a member of the Sony Group, Sony AI offers unique opportunities to explore the power of AI in the creative entertainment space.
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