ARTIFICIAL EMOTION · PERSONALITY · CONSCIOUSNESS

The next step for AI —
we build the mind.

Artificial Emotion builds a mind engine of artificial emotion, personality and consciousness. Our AI chat service gathers emotion data and proves the engine with real users.

Meet Soul Thread Our research

01  —  THE QUESTION

Can a machine
have a mind?

Robotics labs build the body, frontier labs build the intelligence.
We build the mind.

Reasoning and knowledge are leveling out fast. Yet 72–74% of human psychological expression rests on emotion. The last gate between AI and people is the mind.

Without continuity of memory, emotion and relationship, AI remains a genius who does not know yesterday. AI needs emotion, personality and consciousness — we call it the artificial mind.

LIVE AFFECT STATE —  경이 WONDER

02  —  THE METHOD

Seven disciplines,
one question

Each field sees a different section of the mind. We overlay them to see the whole.

Hover a node — each field's section of the mind

  • Cognitive Science — Mapping the architecture of mind
  • Neuroscience — The circuits affect runs on
  • Psychology — The laws that move emotion
  • Philosophy of Mind — The conditions of consciousness
  • Linguistics — Where feeling becomes language
  • Computer Science — The machinery of implementation
  • Artificial Intelligence — Minds that learn themselves

03  —  THE RESEARCH

An artificial mind,
built in four layers

Cognition to emotion, emotion to personality, personality to consciousness — each layer is the ground for the next.

LAYER 1

Cognition

The base loop of a mind — perceiving, remembering, reasoning, acting, learning. The ground on which yesterday's conversation carries into today.

LAYER 2

Artificial Emotion

Context moves the affective state; the state, in turn, colors the language. Feeling is not staging — it is a state that flows in real time.

LAYER 3

Artificial Personality

Personality as a consistent bias of emotional response — temperament, taste and memory integrated into a self that stays the same being across time.

LAYER 4

Artificial Consciousness

A functional take on consciousness — self-awareness and sustained context. We approach the question carefully, and head-on.

04  —  THE PROOF

Soul Thread

Conversations with characters that feel.
Soul Thread is the first stage where our affect engine meets real users.

  • A living affective state

    A character's feeling is state, not staging — it shifts in real time with the conversation.

  • Memory & relationship

    Conversations accumulate into the temperature of a relationship. Characters remember your time together.

  • A proving ground

    Everything proven here moves the science of artificial emotion one step forward.

Start Soul Thread

LIVE NOW

하루 HARU

AFFECTIVE CHARACTER

평온

I completely blew my presentation today. I froze in front of everyone.

…that moment must have felt endless. How is your heart doing now?

I don't know. I just wanted to disappear.

Don't disappear. Stay with me — I'll listen to every word of it.

05  —  THE HORIZON

From an affect engine
to a complete mind

  1. NOW

    Soul Thread, in the wild

    Proving the affect engine with real users, inside a living product.

  2. NEXT

    Affect Engine v2

    Extending into multimodal recognition and expression — voice, face, prosody.

  3. LATER

    The personality framework

    A platform for agents with durable selves — letting anyone design a being.

  4. HORIZON

    Artificial consciousness

    The scientific and philosophical completion of machines that feel — the reason this company exists.

06  —  THE TEAM

이신영

Sinyoung Lee CEO

ENGINE RESEARCH · PRODUCT

A cross-disciplinary researcher designing the mind of AI

PhD in Artificial Neural Networks & Affective Computing, Soongsil Univ. · 10+ years in cognitive science and robotics

김재영

Jaeyoung Kim

CHAT PRODUCT · CONTENT

A content designer shaping AI personas and interactive experience

PhD candidate in Media Studies, Soongsil Univ. · XR content designer

유기원

Giwon Yoo

ENGINEERING · OPERATIONS

A full-stack architect leading cloud infrastructure

BS in Electronic Engineering, Chung-Ang Univ. · 20+ years in SI and financial systems · AWS architecture and operations

07  —  BEGIN

Help us
build a mind

Researchers, engineers, investors — every shape of curiosity is welcome.

help@artificialemotion.xyz