Korea Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI, President Bang Seung-chan) through the Korean artificial intelligence (AI) ‘Exobrain’ project ▲ 490 domestic and foreign papers ▲ 362 domestic and foreign patent applications ▲ 8.5 billion won in technology transfer, 13.3 billion won in commercialization ▲ 2 corporations listed on KOSDAQ etc., announced on the thirtieth.
For Exobrain, ▲ETRI is accountable for ▲ETRI’s 1st detailed task (development of intelligent evolving WiseQA platform technology for human knowledge augmentation service) ▲Saltlux’s 2nd detailed task (development of self-learning knowledge base and reasoning technology based on big data understanding) ▲KAIST is third It supervised the detailed task (human mimicking self-learning intelligence source technology) and carried out for 10 years in three stages from May 2013 to February this yr.
The research team developed Korean AI technologies, similar to in-depth question-answering technology that finds the proper answer from a searched document for a natural language query, Korean language evaluation technology, deep learning language model-based application technology, and knowledge base-based reasoning technology. Based on this, in November 2016, the scholarship quiz ‘Confrontation with the human quiz kings! He also won the ‘Exobrain’.
As well as, ETRI has disseminated language intelligence technology and machine learning data developed through the project through an open API/data service portal since 2017 for the primary time in a domestic R&D project.
The research team has to date disclosed 18 sorts of language processing technologies, 14 sorts of learning data, and a pair of sorts of language models. As of the tip of 2022, greater than 61 million of the published data were utilized by 2349 institutions.
In 2019, it developed and released the Korean language model KorBERT, which has 4.5% higher performance than the language model BERT developed by Google.
As well as, the research team achieved 8.53 billion won in royalties and 13.3 billion won in commercialization through 193 technology transfers over 10 years. Through this, he said, it also contributed to stopping foreign AI solutions from encroaching on the domestic market.
The achievements of the institutions participating within the study were also noted. Saltlux was listed on the KOSDAQ in July 2020, and Minds Lab, a joint organization for the primary detailed task, was listed on the KOSDAQ in November 2021.
As well as, he explained that he tried to secure original technology through standardization related to language intelligence data and technology, and submission of diverse patents and papers.
Since April of last yr, ETRI researchers have been conducting research on AI SW development that may support decision-making by experts by extending explanatory power to natural language processing technology as a follow-up task to the Exobrain project. It is anticipated to indicate differentiated results by presenting a natural language-based explanation (correct answer) specialized in a selected domain, similar to law or finance, and a reliable basis for the reason.
Lee Hyeon-gyu, PM on the Institute for Information and Communications Technology Planning and Evaluation (IITP), said, “Exobrain is a representative technology that’s most generally utilized in the commercialization market consequently of national projects, and has made an awesome contribution to the event of domestic AI technology. In the longer term, it might be desirable to put it up for sale as a mission-oriented project that enhances the present performance or insufficient functions.”
ETRI Dr. Baek Man-man said, “We’ll make efforts in order that the achievements of the Exobrain project gathered over the past 10 years is not going to be lost and will likely be repeatedly utilized, and we are going to strive to develop a more advanced technology in Exobrain technology through follow-up projects with the project members.” said.
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