SEOUL, Jan. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea plans to have 30 percent of local companies adopt artificial intelligence (AI) technologies by 2030 to beef up competitiveness of local industries, the industry ministry said Friday. The target marks a sharp rise from the current estimate of 1 percent, according to the Ministry of Trade, Industry [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s ICT ministry has embarked on a project to recruit experts and conduct a technological analysis, eyeing the spillover effect caused by ChatGPT, a general-purpose chatbot prototype developed by U.S. research lab OpenAI. The ministry has reportedly been working with artificial intelligence (AI) experts to study the technological and [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Sleep deprivation is prevalent in the modern world. Smartphone lights confuse the natural sleep-and-wake cycle of ordinary people, and the remote working culture makes it harder for them to switch off, even at night. There is also an acceptance — or even a glorification — of forgoing sleep, fueled [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA) announced on Monday that it will release the climate and weather observation and prediction data that it has accumulated internally to the public. Such data will be provided in one stop through the application programming interface (API)-based climate weather data hub. Once an integrated [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — Famous South Korean cartoonist Lee Hyun-se has decided to teach his cartoon drawing techniques to an artificial intelligence (AI). Comic book publisher Jaedam Media Co. announced that it had signed a deal with the 66-years-old legendary cartoonist to develop AI technology for cartoon and webtoon production. After establishing a [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — In recent years, artificial intelligence (AI) assisted diagnosis has emerged in many medical fields, such as gastric cancer, one of the leading causes of cancer-related deaths in South Korea, based on endoscopic and other computerized tomographic images. But it is hard to secure enough quality endoscopic images from real [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Uplus Corp., South Korea’s third-largest wireless carrier, on Tuesday unveiled its new artificial intelligence (AI) services as part of its long-term strategy to transform itself from its traditional telecom identity into a digital platform service provider. Its AI brand, named “ixi,” offers AI-powered services for sports match predictions, [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean research team has developed a new technology that uses artificial intelligence (AI) deep learning to clearly recognize and identify the key features of human faces such as eyes, nose and lips, even in low-resolution images. The Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST) said Monday that [...]
GWANGJU, Oct. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korea-U.S. joint research team has developed new technology that uses an artificial intelligence (AI) prediction model to predict the most forest fire vulnerable weather conditions one week before the weather condition is realized and identify the risk of forest fire before it actually breaks out. The Gwangju [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Artificial intelligence (AI) technology that analyzes new articles related to inflation will be capable of predicting the rising trend of consumer prices in the near future, a central bank report said Monday. The Bank of Korea used an AI language model to measure the “written tone” of news articles [...]