KT Develops Virtual Human 'Giga Genie AI Human'

At the DeepBrain AI building in Gangnam, Seoul, KT Head of Division Choi Jun-gi (right) is listening to an explanation about AI humans from DeepBrain AI CEO Jang Se-young.

[Asia Economy Reporter Lim Hye-sun] KT is developing a conversational virtual human called 'GigaGenie AI Human.'

On the 17th, KT announced that it signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for business cooperation on the 'GigaGenie-AI Human project' with the virtual human specialized company 'DeepBrain AI.'

Through this collaboration, the two companies will create the 'GigaGenie AI Human' by combining KT GigaGenie's artificial intelligence brain with DeepBrain AI's virtual human, and develop new GigaGenie businesses utilizing it. They plan to apply the GigaGenie AI Human developed by both companies to AI services equipped with KT's 'GIGAGENIE INSIDE' and advance the business.

While existing virtual humans only allowed users to listen to predetermined speech like internet videos, KT GigaGenie AI Human is developed by equipping the virtual human's appearance with KT's AI brain to enable continuous conversations with real people. Because of this, the two companies expect that GigaGenie AI Human will enable complete 24-hour non-face-to-face services in various fields such as media, education, finance, and commerce in the future.

First, the two companies plan to complete the development of an AI Human kiosk equipped with GigaGenie Inside in the first half of the year and expand the service to distribution, financial sectors, hotels, and resorts within the year.

Meanwhile, DeepBrain AI's AI Human is a solution that creates virtual humans capable of real-time two-way communication. It implements virtual humans that can exchange conversations with users by utilizing technologies such as speech synthesis, video synthesis, natural language processing, and speech recognition. In particular, to realize virtual humans naturally conversing in real-time, they developed a 'process optimization technology.'

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