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| Source: Fujitsu. Overview of the field trial. |
Interest in relocating to the countryside is rising, and Itoshima officials are receiving an increasing number of enquiries about relocating to the area. When people wanting to move there consider where within the municipality they should reside, however, they have found it difficult to obtain information on different locations, such as the seaside, mountains, fields, town areas, and isolated islands, which has led to occasional dissatisfaction among those who relocated.
In this field trial designed to help match potential new residents to candidate locations within Itoshima, the AI is trained on the preferences of users seeking to relocate. It presents, based on those preferences, information** on such locations that are deemed appropriate for the user, and then seeks to provide appropriate matches through an iterative process in which the user rates the locations presented. Through this trial, the parties seek to develop 'automatically evolving' AI technology that takes social acceptance into consideration in matching people wanting to relocate with locations which they will like.
Challenges that the research considers include:
Data volume: The amount of data related to relocation decisions from which an AI system can learn is quite small.
Accuracy of data that can be obtained from those seeking to relocate: People seeking to relocate but who have never lived in a rural area cannot accurately convey the specific conditions they have for the place where they wish to move.
Social acceptance: There is psychological resistance to using an AI system to determine life-changing decisions.
The three partners aim to build an AI system can learn gradually, starting with a limited amount of data. The system will be interactive, presenting optimal locations to those seeking to relocate, and conveying to city officials the preferences.
The companies will begin with a pre-evaluation phase with a small number of test subjects from September to October 2016. From November 2016 to March 2017, they will evaluate the effectiveness of the technology in actual relocation discussions.
Itoshima City will provide a venue for interviews with local residents and people seeking to relocate, as well as experience in recommending candidate locations. The Fujitsu Social Mathematics Joint Research Unit within the Institute of Mathematics for Industry at Kyushu University and Fujitsu Laboratories will handle the development and evaluation of the AI issues beyond just helping people with relocation matching. In addition, Fujitsu Laboratories seeks to use the results of this field trial to further improve its automatically-evolving AI technology with the aim of including it in Human Centric AI Zinrai, Fujitsu's AI platform.
*The Fujitsu Social Mathematics Joint Research Unit within the Institute of Mathematics for Industry at Kyushu University is a mathematical technology research and development unit aimed at resolving social issues, established in September 2014, as part of the Institute of Mathematics for Industry by Kyushu University, Fujitsu and Fujitsu Laboratories.
The Institute of Mathematics for Industry: Asia's first mathematics research centre focused on industrial technology. In addition to carrying out mathematical theory research for industry, it also contains the Laboratory of Advanced Software in Mathematics, which implements and publishes theories as software.
**Rather than just statistical information on such things as population and land areas, this is information rooted in local life that conveys a sense of the local atmosphere and activities.
**Rather than just statistical information on such things as population and land areas, this is information rooted in local life that conveys a sense of the local atmosphere and activities.
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