With Naver's Clova and Samsung's BIxby, the Korean market is particularly competitive in the virtual assistant industry, she says. ''It's been big in Korea for a long time, but webtoon is just now getting started in the U.S.,'' she says adding that many other ideas began in Korea first before spilling to the U.S. Take Naver webtoon for example, says Choe. 'As Koreans, our advantage is that we know the Korean market and culture.'' ''There are so many reasons to be proud that we are from Korea. Before anything, understand Korea first.' ''It may not matter where you work and how much you work, but results matter.''įor aspiring Koreans who want a career in the U.S., Choe advises, ''Don't try to be like someone else by going down the typical elite U.S. ''Contrary to what many people think, working at Google isn't all that laid back,'' Choe says.
team at noon, then the Asia team late into the evening Starting at 8:30 a.m., Choe leads a meeting with her Europe team, then the U.S. It was also a time when teaching language to machines began to emerge as a hot topic.Īfter close to three years in Japan, Choe was called to Google's headquarters, where she was promoted to lead the team of computational and analytical linguists around the world. That is where she created Google's first computational linguist team. ''It was an eye-opening experience for me to learn that what I've been studying for years could be systemized,'' she says.Ĭhoe was good at what she did and was offered a full-time job in 2013, but this time at Google Japan. ''It was a natural progress for me to continue studying deeper into the field,'' she says, ''and then opportunity came.''Ĭhoe was offered a contractor job with Google Korea to work on a short-term research project. ''I became interested in teaching Korean and that's when everything started,'' says Choe, who subsequently achieved her master's and doctoral degrees in Korean language and linguistics while having another child along the way. With an undergraduate degree in journalism, she originally wanted to become a journalist but had to seek a more flexible job that could be juggled while raising a baby. ''I started a family at a young age,'' says Choe, who had her first child when she was 24, ''and at that time, I thought my career was over before it even started.'' In Korean dialogue, the conversation changes largely depending on the relationship, level of intimacy and situation, Choe explains, adding that all these factors make it tough for a machine to master the language completelyīut this is also the kind of challenge that makes the job rewarding, she says.Ĭhoe, who launched Google's computational linguist team, is a language expert who stumbled upon her career unexpectedly. ''Our ultimate goal is to enable intuitive and natural conversations between machines and humans,'' she said, adding that this goal would likely be reached in five years.Īmong many languages, Korean is by far the most complex to teach a machine, she says. The toughest challenge for AI, Choe says, is language.
''I only followed my passion for language studies and here I am,'' says Choe, who leads a growing team of computational and analytical linguists working for Google Assistant.Īs Senior Staff Analytical Linguist, Choe's job is to make Google's artificial intelligence (AI)-powered virtual assistant understand and speak more like a human. She works at Google's world headquarters, spearheading next-generation technology and overseeing hundreds of staff at the tech powerhouse.īut the 39-year-old says none of this was something she had ever dreamed of. MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA ― In the eyes of many, Choe Hyun-jeong has a dream job.
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