Conversational AI platform artificial intelligence startup Persona System (CEO Seungjae Yoo) was selected as the 2019 First Penguin Startup Company by the Korea Credit Guarantee Fund.

Shinbo's 'First Penguin Company Guarantee System' is a program that selects startups with excellent technology among companies within 5 years of founding in the manufacturing industry, new growth engine companies, and promising service fields, and provides up to 3 billion won in funding for 3 years.

Dongbu Startup Branch of Korea Credit Guarantee Fund (Branch Manager Dongshin Kim) said, “The Korean language-specialized interactive platform technology possessed by Persona System is a source technology in the AI ​​field that will lead the 4th industrial revolution and can be spread to various fields such as chatbots, AI kiosks, and smart factories. “Using the technology of the persona system, innovative technology-based services that combine AI, natural language processing, and deep learning technologies will be possible,” he said.

Conversational AI platform is an innovative source technology that will lead the ICT paradigm after the smartphone platform.

The chatbot using the persona system's AI platform has a high Korean recognition rate (100% Korean recognition rate as a result of the KOLAS international accreditation test) and is able to understand context, remember previous conversations, and recognize dialects. Built-in NLG technology that automatically generates more than 100,000 learning data, shortening the construction period and reducing costs, it is evaluated as Chatbot 3.0, surpassing existing chatbots. In addition, the fact that there are no security issues as it is possible to install chatbots based on its own platform is an advantage.

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CEO Yoo Seung-jae said, "The selection of the first penguin-type start-up company is the result of recognition of the technology and market competitiveness of the conversational AI platform specialized in Korean language. We will challenge the global market by implementing

Journalist Yoon-Young Jang (young@etnews.com), Electronic Newspaper Internet