An Age When Small and Medium-Sized Companies Utilize AI in Business Web magazine New value creation NAVI - Introducing the products, technologies and services of small and mid-size companies to the world New Value Creation PORTAL

AI is currently making its way into society in various ways, such as seen in the defeat of a top-class professional go player against AI in a game of go, and the start of initiatives in autonomous cars using AI. Of course, the same can be said of the world of business, and one of the things that is attracting much attention in the use of AI is IBM Watson ("Watson") developed by IBM Corporation. Watson is provided over the cloud, and it presents answers grounded in reason based on an interpretation of complex questions, conversations, etc. posed to it in natural language by analyzing an extremely vast amount of data. In addition, by gaining new experience, it begins to rapidly improve the accuracy of the answers. Currently, based on the Japanese version of Watson, Softbank has started offering various services. The ease of implementing these services and their affordability may become a powerful ally to small and medium-sized companies in the business arena.