SEOUL, May 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Upstage, a South Korean startup, on Tuesday unveiled its artificial intelligence (AI)-powered solutions for businesses that provide automated document processing and individually-tailored search services. The Document AI Pack is Upstage’s flagship no-code program based on the optical character recognition (OCR) technology that converts scanned documents into editable and sharable [...]
SEOUL, May 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Korea’s healthcare industry is about to witness the debut of an innovative Artificial Intelligence (AI) virtual human home trainer for the first time. EstSoft, a leading AI services provider, revealed on Friday that it had introduced a home training service in collaboration with Shinhan-Cubeon, a digital healthcare subsidiary of [...]
SEOUL, May 7 (Korea Bizwire) —SK Telecom’s AI-based emergency rescue service has been actively responding to calls for assistance. On Sunday, the telecom giant announced that the cumulative number of emergency rescue interventions linked to its ‘Emergency SOS’ service, which is powered by its AI speaker NUGU, has exceeded 500. Developed with the aim of [...]
SEOUL, May 4 (Korea Bizwire) — KT announced on Wednesday the launch of a new product called the “AI Phone,” which is an all-in-one solution that combines a landline phone with an AI Call Assistant service for busy small businesses. The AI Call Assistant Lite service provides features such as AI greetings, call forwarding, call [...]
SEOUL, May 2 (Korea Bizwire) —Samsung Electronics is reportedly developing its own generative AI solution optimized for translation and document summarization while temporarily restricting the use of ChatGPT and other third-party generative AI tools within its in-house operations. On April 28, Samsung announced its decision to limit the use of generative AI through in-house PCs, [...]
SEOUL, May 2 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean artificial intelligence (AI) startup Upstage said Monday it has added a new function to its chatbot AskUp, which analyzes and records nutritional information when users upload food photos. This was made possible through a contract signed between Upstage and the local healthcare startup Doing Lab to implement [...]
SEOUL, April 24 (Korea Bizwire) — KT, in collaboration with digital logistics group LoLab, has launched Brokarry 2.0, an AI-powered freight brokerage and transportation service. The platform offers services such as AI-recommended rates, next-day payment, and responsible transportation, with enhanced AI-based functions such as AI transportation control and AI cargo recommendation. Shippers receive powerful transportation [...]
SEOUL, April 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Korean researchers have made significant strides in video artificial intelligence (AI) technology, specifically in the area of sound-to-image conversion. A research team led by Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) professor Oh Tae-hyun has developed a technology called Sound2scene, which can convert sound information into corresponding images. The [...]
SEOUL, April 14 (Korea Bizwire) – About half of South Koreans feel that a recent incident involving ChatGPT leaking a list of conversations it had with other users is a serious issue. Local pollster THEPOL conducted a survey of 26,137 South Koreans, in which 48 percent said that ChatGPT’s recent leak of the list of [...]
SEOUL, April 14 (Korea Bizwire) — South Koreans have high concerns about the potential negative exploitation of artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots like ChatGPT, despite finding them convenient, a survey showed Thursday. The Korea Press Foundation surveyed 1,000 Korean adults, finding that among those who had tried ChatGPT, 89.6 percent said it was convenient and 87.2 [...]