Virtual artist IA appears in JR East's "Let's Grow Guide AI Together Project!

Monogokoro, an AI technology developer, has collaborated with IA, a virtual artist produced by 1st PLACE, on a digital signage type guidance AI "Virtual Attendant" in the "Let's Grow Guide AI Together" project conducted by JR East Group. The "Virtual Attendant" is a digital signage-type guidance AI produced by 1st PLACE in collaboration with IA, a virtual artist.

The "Virtual Attendant" is an interactive digital signage system that integrates Monogokoro's natural language processing and other AI-related technologies, CG character animation technology, and the voice technology and hardware know-how of partner companies into a single package. When users speak to the characters, the content is analyzed and the characters answer using voice and display screen.

The "Let's Grow Guide AI Together Project," a collaboration between monogokoro and virtual artist IA, will install guide robots and digital signage at several terminal stations and commercial facilities (e.g., echinacas and hotels) on the Yamanote Line. The project aims to build a smarter guidance AI system by improving the accuracy of the AI's answers to various questions from users through providing guidance in and around the stations and souvenirs, etc. This time, a version in collaboration with virtual artist IA and a kimono-dressed guidance AI "Virtual Attendant This time, a collaborative version with virtual artist IA and a kimono-clad "Virtual Attendant Akane" will be installed at Ueno Station.

The "Let's Grow Guide AI Together Project
Guide robots and digital signage will be installed at several terminal stations and commercial facilities (e.g., echinka and hotels) on the Yamanote Line, and guide chatbots will be deployed to provide information in and around stations, as well as information on souvenirs.
The project aims to build a smarter guidance AI system by answering various questions from customers at each location and improving the accuracy of the answers through AI learning based on the content of the questions.
This experiment is a part of the Mobility Transformation Consortium's demonstration experiment.
Period: December 7, 2018 - March 15, 2019
Stations: Tokyo Station, Hamamatsucho Station, Shinagawa Station, Shinjuku Station, Ikebukuro Station, Ueno Station, and 24 other stations (6 stations in total)
Participating companies: 18 manufacturers, 15 JR East Group companies, 33 companies in total
Managing company: JRE Robotics Station Limited Liability Partnership (LLP)

About Virtual Artist IA
Born in 2012, IA is a virtual artist who has developed unique activities with her unparalleled singing and performance skills. She has released seven albums and seven digital singles to date. His voice comes from the voice synthesizing software "VOCALOID (Japanese singing)" and "CeVIO (English singing, Japanese talk)".
Image girl of "SUPER GT", one of the biggest races in Japan (2013, 14). Insert song for the anime "MECCA CITY ACTORS" (2014). Performed a 12-city world tour "PARTY A GO-GO" (2015-18). Caravan of the same live show in 100 cities around the world. A total of 30,000 people attended (2015-18). Performed at "BILIBILI MACRO LINK 2017" in Shanghai. Recorded 720,000 simultaneous viewers (2017). Became the first virtual artist to serve on the executive committee of the International Information Olympiad with 83 countries participating (2018).
In June 2018, he held a pre-performance of his latest musical and live show "ARIA" within the digital art festival in the city of Enghien-les-Bains, France.On January 26 and 27, 2019, the first performance of this tour will be held at DMM VR THEATER in Yokohama, Japan.