Artificial Brain based on Brain-Inspired Algorithms for Human-Like Intelligent Functions

The Korean Brain Neuroinformatics Research Program got into the 3rd phase from July 2004 for 4 years, which is regarded as the final phase of Korean brain national research program started from November 1998 for 10 years. It is a joint effort of researchers from many different disciplines including neuroscience, cognitive science, electrical engineering, and computer science, and currently about 35 Ph.D.s and about 70 graduate students are involved in the program. The Korean Brain Neuroinformatics Research Program has two goals, i.e., to understand information processing mechanisms in biological brains and to develop intelligent machines with human-like functions based on the mechanism. In the 3rd phase we are developing an integrated hardware and software platform for the brain-like intelligent systems, which combine all the technologies developed for the brain functions in the second phase. With 2 microphones, 2 cameras (or retina chips), and one speaker, the Artificial Brain looks like a human head, and has the functions of vision, auditory, cognition, and behavior. Also, with this platform, we plan to develop a testbed application, i.e., "artificial secretary" alias OfficeMate, which will reduce the working time of human secretary by a half. Each OfficeMate should have its own unique personality, which may be effected by its own previous states as well as the current input and output values of the Agent. We are modeling the personality as internal states, which are implemented by recurrent neural networks.