"AI class" for high school students To develop future human resources February 4 6:44

It is pointed out that there is a shortage of human resources involved in AI = artificial intelligence development in Japan, but a classroom for learning about the structure and use of AI was opened in Tokyo to get high school students interested in AI development. .

This was opened by an AI development company in Tokyo on the 3rd in Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, and was attended by 17 students from first to third grade high school.

Regarding AI, it has been pointed out that there is a shortage of human resources in Japan, with the number of people involved in development remaining below one-tenth of the United States.

In the classroom, students actually experienced the work called "Annotation", in which AI learned images using a personal computer.

The high school students extracted the part where the dog or cat was captured from various images, entered the dog or cat and let the AI ​​learn one after another.

In the future, we will learn the basics of AI development, such as data collection and input, and the programs that are the basis of AI.

A high school first grader girl who participated said, "It was interesting to see that the great skills of the present day were realized by steady work, and when I actually tried it, it was fun."

Said Kan Sogabe, an AI developer who opened the classroom, said, "I often get stuck when I start with theory, and I want you to learn how to solve problems that you want to solve with AI."