KETI to Develop Korean-Style AI with Carnegie Mellon University
Published2017.07.14 10:13The Korea Electronics Technology Institute (KETI) announced that it will develop Korean-style AI technology with Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), the top-ranked university in the U.S. in the fields of computer science and artificial intelligence (AI).
A joint research agreement for social cognition-based AI technology was signed at the CMU campus in Pittsburgh, USA. The subject is digital companion technology. While Watson or robo-advisors are AIs limited to specific fields, digital companion technology is a lifestyle-oriented AI that provides services needed in daily life right by the user's side.
The key feature is a technology that recognizes situations, contexts, and emotions through adaptive machine learning and identifies the user's intent to provide context-specific interactions on its own, distinguishing it from existing digital assistant technologies that perform given tasks, such as playing specific music.
ArticuLab at CMU’s Department of Computer Science, which will collaborate with KETI, is a center that studies human interaction in social and cultural contexts for AI development, and is headed by Associate Dean Justine Cassell, who majored in linguistics and cognitive psychology and led the Gesture and Narrative Language research group at the MIT Media Lab.
CMU plans to share know-how and experience in developing AI with social cognitive functions through cooperation with KETI, while researching human-computer conversation strategies and intimacy-building models for Korean-style digital companion technology suitable for Korean sentiment.
"In order for the interaction between AI and humans to be seamless in the era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, the key is to secure digital companion technology that continuously observes the user's situation and responds autonomously by comprehensively inferring their intentions, emotions, and context," said KETI President Park Cheong-won. "We will overcome the technology gap through collaboration with leading research universities in the AI field, while strengthening corporate competitiveness by developing Korean-style digital companion technologies and application services and sharing them with our companies."
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