A search function will be added to the KakaoTalk channel-based chatbot (AskUp). It plans to improve the limitations of inaccurate information provision of generated AI by reflecting real-time information.
Upstage, a Korean artificial intelligence (AI) startup, announced on the 23rd that it will add a “question mark search” function to commemorate the 300,000 friends of Kakao Talk’s Ascup channel. Through this, unlike Chat GPT, which only learned information by 2021, it provides the latest information.
It also supplemented halucination, which provides inaccurate information by attaching links to the information sources answered.Escup is a Kakao Talk channel that combines optical character reading (OCR) technology based on Chat GPT to understand and answer text in the image when a user transmits a document image. Within 18 days of its launch, it surpassed 350,000 Kakaotalk friends. It also upgraded its service by applying GPT4, which was unveiled on the 14th (local time). Currently, 100 GPT 3.5 versions and 10 GPT4 versions of messages are available for free.Through this update, you can summarize the search results and check the source if you type the search term after the phrase “?” in the chat window of the Kakaotalk channel. The search engine used Kakao and Google. For example, “? If you enter “this year’s flowering time,” the content will be informed along with a link.Kim Sung-hoon, CEO of Upstage, said, “Following the application of GPT4, we quickly proceeded with an update to add a search function to the lodging industry so that everyone can find and utilize the latest information more conveniently.
“As we can search right away during the conversation, we will bring innovation in the mobile use experience,” he said. “Upstage aims to increase the public’s accessibility and reliability to AI through escalation.” In addition, there is a company called Infomining that has applied these chatbot functions to the medical field.
Currently, Teledoc Healthcare, the largest healthcare company in the United States, has built various chatbot functions in consumers and patient hospitals, and is receiving licensing and development costs. GPT was already an area that was approached and applied by professional AI startup companies even before it approached the public. If Kakao Talk’s chatbot is in demand in Korea, Infomain’s chatbot is building language services based on the international U.S. and the world.
Chang-young CHOI
US ASIA JOURNAL
