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LG AI Research, LG's dedicated AI organization, revealed its plan to invest KRW 100 billion on building and developing large scale computing infrastructure to rapidly process a vast amount of data for the next three years at its “AI Talk Concert” held online on May 17.
 
The “Super-giant AI” resembles the human brain structure that comprehensively and autonomously thinks, learns, judges, and acts, not limited to any specific use, by learning vast amounts of data based on computing infrastructure capable of large-capacity computation. To that end, LG AI Research plans to build large-scale computing infrastructure capable of processing 9,570 trillion times per second and launch ‘Super Giant AI’ with 600 billion parameters in the second half of this year. This is more than three times the 175 billion parameters possessed by GPT-3, the most powerful super-giant language model in existence.
 
Since its launch at the end of last year, LG AI Research has continued to build, in full scale, a research system for source proprietary technologies to overcome the technological limitations of deep learning, and offer customer AI to raise customer value and enterprise AI research to increase business efficiency. This additional investment is aimed at taking a leap forward and usher in a new era of deep learning. At the AI talk concert, Dr. Kyunghoon Bae, the head of LG AI Research, mentioned in detail the specific aspects of LG's super giant AI. Let's find out more in detail.
 
Super-giant AI as an Integrated Expert
 
Deep learning-based AI technology has rapidly expanded its base since AlphaGo of DeepMind Technologies created quite a stir in society in 2016. In addition to chatbots that talk naturally like human beings and self-driving cars based on video recognition, deep learning technology has been widely used in various business areas such as discovering new substances, developing new drugs, optimizing product designs, automating processes, and predicting future demand. Due to the nature of digital technology, as long as one secures a certain level of performance in a particular field, it is applicable to a wide variety of fields, and its far-reaching power has also continued to increase.
 
However, the current deep learning technology that even beats the average human intelligence in certain areas has not guaranteed any performance beyond that level. No matter how good self-driving AI technology may be, it is unable to surpass F1 machine drivers with an outstanding instantaneous rate of reaction and even the best chatbot does not have the capacity to communicate better than a renowned psychiatrist who analyzes psychological states that people do not express.
 
LG AI Research plans to design AI that is greater than the upper '1% of human experts' and develop AI that has expert-level intelligence in various fields at the same time, based on the new possibility powered by super-giant AI. For example, the plan is to offer a learning experience for practical communication with various people and numerous educational courses to create AI that is capable of communicating at a level on par with communication experts trained for decades. Once LG AI developed in this manner is applied to customer consultation chatbots and callbots, we will be able to analyze customer sentiment revealed in sentences and conversations to provide natural and satisfying services. LG AI Research plans to offer customer consultations that match the finest professional counselors in customer service centers, while developing AI that is capable of even signing contracts with B2B customers.
 
Furthermore, LG AI Research will incorporate meta-human technologies that gave shape to AI to create a deeper consensus with our customers to deal with any issues faced by them faster and more accurately. Against this backdrop, we will be able to communicate with our customers and share our joy in the upcoming Metaverse world.
 
The AI developed in this way to rival that of communication experts will not only communicate with people but also bridge the gap between people and machines. AI will understand the human language and translate it into a programming language interpretable by machines to rapidly deliver more valuable products and services to customers.
 
Super-giant AI Challenges the Impossible
 
Beyond securing expert intelligence through super-giant AI, LG AI Research will challenge the impossible that is achievable only when many experts stand united to issue a challenge for a long period of time.
 
Academic papers and patent analysis on chemistry would make a good example. Academic papers and patents capturing the chemical knowledge that humankind has accumulated over the past 250 years are vast in number, but since they have not been digitized, they are unavailable for AI to use. It is very difficult to read a vast amount of literature and build a database even with tens of thousands of chemical experts, and that is why it is slow to discover any new substances.
 
LG AI Research plans to automatically analyze academic papers and patents in the field of chemistry with super-giant AI and build a database. It will not only recognize molecular structures in the papers and abstract physical information from tables but also extract various experimental conditions from the main text to build a comprehensive substance database.
 
Once this effort becomes a reality, AI-based discovery of new substances will pick up pace and advance the development of electric vehicles that drive further and last longer with high-capacity long-life batteries and develop high-efficiency light-emitting elements to launch better display products. Also, we will be able to discover eco-friendly plastic materials and bequeath a healthier Earth to our descendants.
 
Furthermore, LG AI Research will be able to develop customized anti-cancer vaccinations and drugs without any side effects that have been available only with the help of many immunologists and genetic engineers. LG AI Research will develop new substances/materials with LG affiliates through super-giant AI research and offer a more convenient and enjoyable life to humankind.
 
AI that Imagines and Creates
 
With super-giant AI, LG AI Research will mount a challenge for the realm of creation, which has been the exclusive property of human being throughout the history of human evolution. Global scholar Yuval Harari once explained that the cognitive revolution, which allowed humans to imagine and believe things they have never seen or experienced, drove the development of human civilization. Super-giant AI will serve as the tool to stir up the human imagination.
 
Typically, humans can maximize their imagination by encountering new things through various experiences. However, due to the constraint of time and space, there are limitations for people to gain personal experience, and people were unable to perceive things that did not exist. “DALL-E,” presented earlier this year, showed the possibility to overcome such limitations of humankind.
 
LG AI Research will set challenges to create world-class super-giant AI to help humans and create new shapes. Leading designers inspired by images they have never seen before will be able to design products that are distinctively different.
 
For example, if you type in the phrase “robot vacuum cleaner design that resembles a supercar,” AI will automatically create hundreds of design proposals, and designers will be able to design further details based on AI's proposal. Since it will allow us to design not only the exterior but also the interior structure of a completely new product, we will be able to launch more original and unique products of LG.
 
In addition, super-giant AI will serve as a perfect assistant to humans in many areas that have long been believed to be reserved solely for humans, such as writing new scenarios, planning creative services, and designing innovative buildings.
 
LG AI Research's challenge set towards super-giant AI is not merely for the benefit of LG, but ultimately to improve the general quality of life of humankind. Beyond LG's current and future business areas, LG AI Research is committed to ushering in the era of “new normal with deep learning” with its partners who share the same dream in such various fields as law, healthcare, education, transportation, and finance, in order to break through existing limitations and present a “better life” to humankind based on super-giant AI.
 
To this end, LG AI Research is discussing cooperation in many different aspects, including partnering for data, exchanging for research, securing infrastructure, and engaging in business cooperation, and plans to build an ‘open ecosystem’ to lead the way for the latest AI technologies.
 
LG AI Research has built computing resources and secured the world's largest learning data, and is now completely ready to conduct research to develop super-large AI. In order to provide customers of LG with a more convenient, more pleasant, healthier, and happier life, as well as to improve the general quality of life of humankind, talented individuals who share the same dream and a vast network of global partners will work together and pave the way for the latest AI technology. We will release their achievements as our research results in the second half of this year.
 
For six months since its launch, LG AI Research has continued to display rapid growth and its talented personnel remain fully committed towards the major goal of super-giant AI.