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SK Telecom's "A." (pronounced "A dot") artificial quality chatbot has a quality that speaks to people. The institution has integrated its assorted work from euphony streaming to e-commerce into A. and is readying to motorboat it afloat successful 2023.
SK Telecom, 1 of South Korea's biggest mobile carriers, connected Friday said it upgraded its chatbot and added a diagnostic powered by the Microsoft unreality and the exertion down OpenAI's ChatGPT.
The institution launched a beta mentation of "A." — pronounced "A dot" — successful South Korea successful May past twelvemonth and has been boosting the product's capabilities up of a full-scale launch.
SKT added a diagnostic called "Chat T" to A. that is powered by the exertion down ChatGPT, based connected Microsoft's Azure OpenAI unreality computing service. Users tin punctual the chatbot for answers, conscionable arsenic they tin with ChatGPT.
The Korean telecoms elephantine besides added a chatroom relation to A. that allows users to person conversations with an AI character.
"Through these conversations, users tin stock accusation astir their regular beingness similar they are talking to a adjacent friend," SKT said successful a property release.
SKT has tried to presumption A. arsenic a antithetic proposition to ChatGPT. A. has a fig of cartoon avatars that users tin interact with. SKT said it has brought much AI agents named "A. friends" to the product, equipped with conversational AI exertion "that enables affectional and human-like conversations."
"By engaging successful conversations with 'A. friends', users tin person counseling and proposal connected a wide assortment of topics," SKT said.
Primarily known arsenic a mobile network, SKT has been keen to diversify its concern into caller areas. The institution plans to launch a flying taxi work successful 2025, and CNBC reported successful February that its AI spot spin-off Sapeon seeks a $400 cardinal valuation done a caller backing round.
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