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Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning
Toyota's Advanced R&D
Puts Humans First
by Lindsay Brooke
Creating technologies that amplify human experience and
endeavor to help solve society's biggest challenges is the
mission of the Toyota Research Institute.
Gill Pratt has a gift for explaining complex topics in
simple terms. And as Toyota Motor Co.'s chief scientist
and CEO of the Toyota Research Institute (TRI), he
also speaks frankly about the promises and potential
pitfalls of new technologies. Addressing a rare group of
visitors - tech reporters and analysts, including SAE
Media - recently at TRI's Silicon Valley headquarters,
Pratt noted the heightened public discourse around
artificial intelligence, a core area of focus for many of
TRI's 200 scientists and engineers.
" Everybody is worried ChatGPT is going to be
writing term papers for college students, " Pratt said
half-jokingly about the controversial " chat bot " introduced
in late 2022 by OpenAI. " But even our humor
reflects the anxiety we have about this technology and
its dual nature of good and evil. " Society, he observed,
has become " much less naive about technology, and
much more skeptical. " Much of that comes from the
AI industry's early hype about self-driving vehicles,
which TRI did not share.
" The first CES talk we did seven or eight years
ago was different than that of most companies, " Pratt
said. " We spent most of our time explaining why this
problem [autonomous driving] is really, really hard -
and why we didn't know how long it was going to take
until we had [SAE] Level 4 automated cars in substantial
operational design domains. And why no one knew
how to do Level 5. "
It's a measured and honest stance by a research
organization founded in 2015 on an initial $1 billion
investment by Toyota. TRI's annual budget comprises
" We shouldn't have the hubris to think that we have all the
answers just because we're good at technological stuff, "
said CEO Gill Pratt.
" a very small part " of the roughly $10 billion Toyota
spends yearly on R&D, Pratt said. Its research pillars-
machine learning, robotics, energy and materials
research, and human-centered AI-aim to ultimately
help solve the challenges of climate change, aging
society, and human understanding. And in doing
so, to fundamentally create a pathway to individual
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