Explain the AI you intend to develop using four concepts.

“We will develop artificial intelligence (AI) that helps humanity and can change the world.”

Kim Yoon, who was appointed as the head of SK Telecom's AI Research Center last February, spoke about the future direction of AI that SK Telecom will introduce.

Center Director Kim Yoon is a machine learning expert who served as the head of Apple’s voice recognition development team and the head of Siri development for the HomePod. “I want to develop AI that can extract knowledge or insights that humans cannot easily derive,” said Kim. “Currently, AI is at a level where it handles a narrow range of tasks. In the future, it will evolve into a form that performs a variety of tasks.”

He added, “The ability to learn two things for every one thing taught is necessary,” and “unsupervised learning methods, which improve performance through data without correct answers, are gaining attention.”

As an AI expert, Center Director Kim explained global AI trends and the four types of artificial intelligence that SK Telecom intends to develop.

The point is that a human-centered approach is necessary, and since humans and machines must evolve together, securing talent is essential. Center Director Kim stated, “We currently have about 30 personnel secured.” "We are planning to double our workforce by the end of the year," he stated, outlining the goal.

Gong explained that since basic technology approaches users' real lives, AI-based products cannot be created without hardware and software engineering. Accordingly, he stated that technological advancement through data feedback is essential.

Center Director Kim stated, “Our goal is to create AI that inevitably contributes to society. Since SK Telecom cannot do everything, we plan to select and focus on areas where we can excel for research and investment.”

He also added that it is important for next-generation AI to secure learning techniques that improve performance without separate supervised learning, identify the cause of errors, and ultimately find and learn what to learn on their own without human instruction.

Neung presented a goal to develop smart networks and content optimized for the upcoming 5G, as well as to reach a level where everything customers can directly see, draw, hear, speak, read, write, and feel is implemented as a user interface.

In conclusion, artificial intelligence was defined as extracting knowledge and insights from complex and unorganized raw data that were previously difficult to obtain, while providing humans with an intuitive and natural interface.