LG Electronics CEO, CTO deliver keynote on AI at IFA

LG Electronics (LG) CEO Jo Seong-jin and President & CTO Dr IP Park spoke on artificial intelligence (AI) during their joint opening keynote address at IFA 2018 in Berlin, Germany.

This marks the first time that LG’s top executives have given a keynote address at a major global exhibition. Entitled Think Wise. Be Free: Living Freer with AI, the speech focused on LG's commitment to staying at the forefront of AI development in the consumer electronics industry.

Following the launch of the LG ThinQ family of smart and AI products earlier this year, LG has been focused on demonstrating the impact of its ecosystem which is embedded with AI based on LG’s open platform, open partnership and open connectivity strategy. 

Source: LG Electronics. Jo and the CLOi robot.

At the keynote Jo emphasised the company’s underlying drive to provide consumers with a better life, defining this as the increased availability of freer and smarter choices in everyday living. “Combined with edge computing and big data, as well as the ability to harness the enhanced connectivity of 5G, AI will bring each aspect of our lives into a seamless connected experience. Your home will know what kind of day you had in the office and will roll out the welcome mat by preparing the perfect environment for when you walk in the door,” he said.

Park then explained three key pillars of AI: evolve, connect and open. With the overarching message that AI is more than innovation for the sake of innovation but in fact embodies Innovation for a Better Life, Dr. Park went on to describe LG’s methodology for the development of core AI technology: 

First, the company’s focus on speech recognition, image recognition, biometric recognition and deep learning algorithms; 

Second, the seamless connectivity offered through LG’s diverse product portfolio that make it possible to eliminate the traditional constraints of space and time; and 

The potential offered through increased connectivity, using LG’s robot vacuum cleaner as an example. He concluded by highlighting the importance of an open AI ecosystem and introduced LG’s webOS operating system.

Messe Berlin Group Executive VP and IFA Executive Director Jens Heithecker said, “We were pleased to have LG open the event by discussing AI, the hottest technology in the consumer electronics industry."