The goal of the MPAI Multimodal Conversation (MPAI-MMC) standard is to enable forms of human-machine conversation that emulate the human-human one in completeness and intensity. While this is clearly a long-term goal, MPAI is focusing on standards providing frameworks which break down – where possible – complex AI functions to facilitate the formation of a component market where solution aggregators can find AI Modules (called AIM) to build AI Workflows (called AIW) corresponding to standard use cases. The AI Framework…

Q: What is the main objective of MPAI? A: There are many languages in the world, but if we want to reach all interested people we have to use a universally recognised language. The same thing happens with data: the more people understand the format the more value they have. The definition of a universal language for music – the MP3 standard – led to a revolution that many – because they did not know the world before – cannot…

Geneva, Switzerland – 23 August 2022. Today the international, non-profit, unaffiliated Moving Picture, Audio and Data Coding by Artificial Intelligence (MPAI) standards developing organisation has concluded its 23rd General Assembly (MPAI-23). Among the outcomes are three documents produced to facilitate the task of drafting a response to the currently open Calls for Technologies and one document that will facilitate the identification and positioning of the technologies defined in the Multimodal Conversation Use Cases and Functional Requirements V2. MPAI-23 has also…

A foundational element of the MPAI architecture is the fact that monolithic AI applications have some characteristics that make them undesirable. For instance, they are single-use, i.e., it is hard to reuse technologies used by the application in another application and they are obscure, i.e., it is hard to understand why a machine has produced a certain output when subjected to a certain input. The first characteristic means that it is hard to make complex applications because an implementer must…

The 19th of July 2022 was the second anniversary of the launch of the MPAI idea. After two years of existence, it is useful to have a summary of MPAI’s vision, mission, processes, achievements, plans, and the sister organisation MPAI Store. Those in a hurry can have a look at a 2 min video about MPAI (YouTube – non-YouTube). Vision. The MPAI idea was driven by the impact digital media standards had on the media industry. While traditionally not very…

On 19 July 2020 – two years ago – the wild idea of an organisation dedicated to the development of AI-based data coding standards was made public. What has happened in these two years? MPAI was established in September 2020. Four Calls for Technologies were published in December 2020, and January-February 2021. The corresponding four Technical Specifications were published in September-November-December 2021: AI Framework (MPAI-AIF, a standard environment to execute AI workflows composed of AI Modules), Compression and Understanding of…