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LG opens AI research center in Michigan

Lee Hong-rak, computer science professor at the University of Michigan, second from left, attends a ceremony to celebrate the opening of LG AI Research in Ann Arbor, Michigan, on Wednesday, along with members of the university's faculty. [LG CORPORATION]

Lee Hong-rak, computer science professor at the University of Michigan, second from left, attends a ceremony to celebrate the opening of LG AI Research in Ann Arbor, Michigan, on Wednesday, along with members of the university's faculty. [LG CORPORATION]

 
LG Corporation opened its first overseas research center for artificial intelligence in Ann Arbor, Michigan, to try to use advanced machine learning to take electronics devices and digital services to the next level.  
 
Lee Hong-rak, computer science professor at the University of Michigan, will head the center. 
 
The LG AI Research will be focused on more sophisticated versions of AI-based systems with the ability to reason and make judgments.  
“The LG AI Research Center, Ann Arbor will advance AI technologies such as Deep Reinforcement Learning, 3D Scene Understanding, and Reasoning with a Large-scale Language Model and Bias & Fairness related to AI ethics, which are the basis for creating AI that thinks and judges on its own with the talents recruited from North America,” the group said in a statement.  
 
The research center is born out of an agreement with the University of Michigan’s College of Engineering in February to foster cooperation between the center and labs at the college.
“Opening of the North American Center is the first step for LG AI Research to enter the global scene beyond South Korea,” said Lee in the statement.  
“We will expand our line of sight and stretch points of contact to universities and research institutes around the world to facilitate a top-level research collaborations,” he said.  
 
LG Corporation will hold a recruitment briefing session on Thursday for AI major graduate students from the University of Michigan with a plan to hire a wide range of researchers across the North America.  
A ceremony was held to celebrate the opening on Wednesday, bringing together teachers at the university and LG researchers.  
“Our faculty and students are excited to strengthen and deepen the existing cooperation with LG AI Research, to advance highly complex and interdisciplinary AI research, in areas like machine learning, natural language processing, and compositional task generalization,” said Michael Wellman,  Division Chair of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) at the University of Michigan.  
On its home turf, LG is conducting AI research in cooperation with Seoul National University.  
 
The group has spearheaded a set of projects built on large-scale AI systems.  
Among them is Exaone, an AI system that LG claims is capable of processing and analyzing the highest amount of data in Korea.  
 
Being large — or hyperscale in the jargon of the industry — means that an AI system uses a huge amount of data of various types including images, text, speech and numerical data to provide more accurate results.

BY PARK EUN-JEE [park.eunjee@joongang.co.kr]
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