It is expected that one will be able to watch a quiz competition between a human and artificial intelligence (AI) program that is developed by South Korean Government in October.
“Although it is still incomplete, we are pushing to have a knowledge contest that has a human competing against a robot in October.” said Kim Hyung-chul, who is a CP (Creative Planner) from Institute for Information & communications Technology Promotion (IITP), at International AI Symposium that is hosted by Ministry of Science, ICP and Future Planning (MSIP) and National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) at KOEX on the 16th.
“This competition is going to be in a form of scholarship quiz and AI program is going to go against students from South Korea.” said CP Kim. “Level of competition is about yearly scholarship competition.”
AI program that will participate in this quiz show is an AI software (SW) called ‘Exo-Brain’ that is developed by Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) under a guidance from South Korean Government since 2013.
Exo-Brain indicates ‘a brain outside of a body’. ETRI’s ultimate goal is to have Exo-Brain to secure intelligence that is at a level of experts by using knowledge learning program and support mankind and not just having ordinary communication with people.
According to CP Kim, Exo-Brain won total of 25 times out of 33 simulation quizzes and recorded 76% winning rate.
“IBM’s Watson was developed for 7 years and was able to beat a person in a quiz show in 2011.” said CP Kim. “If Exo-Brain is able to win in this quiz show, it is as if South Korea catching up to IBM in just 4 years of development.”
South Korean Government is trying to reach its first step of goal of securing original technologies and creating ecosystem for AI by February of next year and is planning to expand its capabilities to expert knowledge services such as medical field, law, finance and others by 2020.
South Korean Government’s ultimate goal is to implement an AI that has world’s best performance and abilities to talk in many languages by 2023.
Staff Reporter Park, Sora | srpark@etnews.com