The three-year collaboration will research AI-enabled applications for everyday use by artists and designers.

LG AI Research, the AI research hub of LG Group (KRX: 003550), the South Korean conglomerate, announced a collaboration with the New York-based Parsons School Of Design for research of advanced AI and creative technologies as applicable to fashion, design and media. (CISION PR NEWSWIRE)

EXAONE Atelier

Titled the “LG AI Research & TNS Parsons Collaboration,” the progam launched on September 14 at the Creativity & AI Inaugural Symposium. It will engage in collaborative academic research activities that will facilitate the development of AI-enabled applications in design and art practices.

LG AI Research will make available its super-giant AI, named EXAONE, a multi-modal AI that has learned over 600 billion corpora and 350 million high-resolution images, and can convert texts and images freely.

The outputs from the research collaboration would be integrated into EXAONE Atelier, the first ideation AI platform based on the super-giant AI that is designed to support artists and designers to expand their creativity in their professional practices.

Ben Barry, Dean of the School of Fashion of Parsons School of Design, said of the collaboration: “It will provide opportunities for Parsons students and faculty to work alongside LG industry leaders to explore emerging issues that arise when human and non-human actors engage in collective creative practice.”

Kyunghoon Bae, Chief of LG AI Research, said, “Through a deeper level of collaboration with Parsons, LG AI Research would like to develop an expert AI, which could maximize human creativity and productivity by understanding not only thoughts and ideas but also knowhow and expertise from a variety of expert humans.”

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