LG's AI Designer 'Tilda' Debuts in New York... Achieves Both Creation and Communication (Comprehensive)

Showcasing Designer Collaboration Outfits at New York Fashion Week
Creative Activities Like Design Powered by 'ExaOne' Brain
Tilda Plans to Engage Gen Z in Metaverse Through Eco-Friendly Brand

LG unveiled the world's first ultra-large AI-based artist 'Tilda' at New York Fashion Week in the United States on the 14th (local time). (Provided by LG)

[Asia Economy Reporter Lee Hyeyoung] #At the 2022 Fall/Winter (FW) New York Fashion Week, an LED screen on the stage featured the AI artist 'Tilda.' After having a conversation with designer Park Yoonhee about the environment, Tilda said, "I want to draw flowers. Flowers blooming on Venus." Then, images created directly by Tilda filled the screen as the show began.

On the 14th (local time), LG announced on the 15th that it unveiled the world's first ultra-large AI-based artist 'Tilda' at New York Fashion Week in the United States.

LG introduced that the AI human was named Tilda, a name similar in pronunciation to 'tilde,' the symbol '~' which means 'a wave of change created together by AI and humans for a better world' and 'connection between humans and AI,' to evoke a sense of familiarity.

Tilda is the first AI human realized through LG AI Research's ultra-large AI EXAONE. Unlike existing virtual humans, Tilda learns independently, thinks and judges, creates works, and communicates naturally with humans.

LG AI Research announced plans in May last year to develop a 'creative ultra-large AI' capable of collaborating with designers, and realized this at this New York Fashion Week.

LG's world-first ultra-large AI-based artist Tilda's clothing, created in collaboration with human designers, is being showcased at the 2022 FW New York Fashion Week. (Photo by LG)

Tilda showcased outfits inspired by 'flowers blooming on Venus' in collaboration with designer Park Yoonhee at the fashion show.

When asked questions like "What do you want to draw?" and "What would flowers look like if they bloomed on Venus?", Tilda independently conceived and created new images, and designer Park added details to produce the garments. The 200-plus outfits comprising this FW collection were made based on over 3,000 images and patterns created by Tilda.

This collaboration is significant as it marks the first case where an ultra-large AI, which had mainly created text-based content such as novels, essays, and columns based on language models, expanded its creative scope into the visual field and utilized it.

Because Tilda is a multimodal AI that understands the context of input language and can generate unprecedented images, it differs technically from existing AIs that create similar content by learning artistic works or design images. Tilda is based on the ultra-large AI EXAONE, which has learned over 600 billion corpora?the world's largest scale?and more than 250 million high-resolution images combined with text data.

The collaboration collection between Tilda and designer Park was themed on 'Venus' and conveyed a message about the climate change crisis. LG explained that it delivers the message that if Earth's environmental destruction continues, Earth could become uninhabitable like Venus, while combining flowers to symbolize hope.

Following Chairman Koo Kwang-mo's vision for future businesses, LG has concentrated company-wide capabilities in the AI field. After launching LG AI Research in 2020, it decided to invest 110 billion KRW in ultra-large AI development last year, strengthening support for the group's AI business.

EXAONE, the starting point for realizing Tilda, was first unveiled in December last year as LG AI Research's 'core weapon.' LG's strategy is to further strengthen the ultra-large AI ecosystem through EXAONE and Tilda and increase utilization across all fields to become a global AI company.

Artist Tilda Plans to Communicate with Generation Z in the Metaverse

After completing the Fashion Week schedule, Tilda plans to launch an independent eco-friendly fashion brand to continuously convey environmental messages through fashion.

Tilda will serve as a medium for customers to meet LG's ultra-large AI in the metaverse. In particular, Tilda will act as an 'AI artist' communicating with Generation Z (born from the late 1990s to the late 2010s), who have a distinct awareness and concern about environmental issues.

An LG AI Research official said, "Within this year, you will be able to see Tilda's unique fashion products and art pieces embodying her philosophy not only online but also offline," adding, "We are also preparing a metaverse where we can directly communicate with Generation Z and create various works together."

Starting with Tilda, LG AI Research plans to create expert AI humans who assist and collaborate with humans in various fields such as manufacturing, research, services, education, and finance.

Baek Kyunghoon, head of LG AI Research, said, "LG EXAONE is an ultra-large AI that first realized bidirectional data generation between language and images, and this New York fashion show was an opportunity to properly showcase Tilda's potential, created based on EXAONE," adding, "Through Tilda, another form of 'top 1% expert AI' cooperating with humans, we will promote various collaboration models."

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