Osaka University demonstrates how artificial intelligence can share emotions with humans by utilizing the high school girl AI "Rinna" of Microsoft Japan Co., Ltd. and "TV metadata" of M Data Co., Ltd. We will carry out joint research on industry-academia collaboration from December 2016, 12.

 Practical utilization of artificial intelligence is spreading, and the social role required for artificial intelligence is from those that return answers according to the commands of humans (users), to humans such as androids, nursing robots, and "Rinna". It has changed to be involved and assist.
While the evolution of artificial intelligence is required in various industries and fields, artificial intelligence and humans can read the emotions of the other party and share emotions as an indispensable technology for artificial intelligence to be close to and collaborate with humans in the future. We will study sympathetic communication through industry-academia collaboration.

 The research group will take up information on TV programs and commercials as the subject matter."Rinna" cross-sectionally captures information on TV programs, commercials, and performers that have been broadcast in the past using TV metadata (a database that is a unique textualization of broadcast results), and is aimed at more than 480 million LINE users. Providing new abilities such as "Celebrity Holy Land Pilgrimage" that provides information.

 With this service, users enjoy chatting with "Rinna" about TV programs and commercials, and by collaborating and analyzing user reactions, we verify artificial intelligence and human "empathy."Through this research, it is expected that artificial intelligence will be applied to the development of technology for cooperating with human beings in the future.

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