SEOUL, March 29 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul city government has tapped into artificial intelligence (AI) technology to automatically detect and monitor digital sex crimes around the clock, officials said Wednesday. The city’s center for fighting digital sex crimes introduced an AI-based monitoring system, developed by the Seoul Institute of Technology, to automatically find and [...]
SEOUL, March 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Netizens who were saddened by the story behind Sero, a zebra that made international headlines for escaping from its zoo enclosure and running through city streets, have created pictures of consolation for the zebra using artificial intelligence. According to local AI startup Lion Rocket, users of the company’s web [...]
SEOUL, March 23 (Korea Bizwire) — As the hiring season heats up, many companies are becoming increasingly wary of job applicants who use generative artificial intelligence (AI) to create resumes. Services such as ChatGPT provide high-quality output in a short amount of time, raising concerns about the potential for discrimination among applicants. There is a growing [...]
SEOUL, March 17 (Korea Bizwire) – The government is stepping up to train “prompt engineers” who are tasked with extracting better results from artificial intelligence (AI) tools like ChatGPT. The Ministry of Science and ICT said Thursday it will open up a new program to train prompt engineers. The program trains students on how to [...]
SEOUL, March 9 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean research team said Wednesday it has developed new artificial intelligence (AI) technology to improve the accuracy of stent procedure, by ensuring a rapid diagnosis of coronary artery clogging during the treatment of cardiovascular diseases. Stent placement, in general, requires an optical coherence tomography (OCT) inspection that [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s top portal operator Naver Corp. said Monday it will unveil an upgraded version of the hyperscale artificial intelligence platform, HyperCLOVA X, tailored for Korean language in July in a bid to keep up with the ChatGPT-fueled global competition for linguistic AI. HyperCLOVA X, the latest edition of [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — The government on Wednesday unveiled a new artificial intelligence-based voice analysis model aimed at combating voice phishing scams. The program was jointly developed by the Ministry of the Interior and Safety’s integrated data analysis center and the National Forensic Service, and will be deployed in investigations later this month, [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Linguistic analysis through artificial intelligence (AI) technology may increase the accuracy of economic research, a central bank report said Thursday. The Bank of Korea (BOK) compiled big data from 128,000 business assessment reports published by securities analysts and implemented a natural language processing method to analyze the qualitative information [...]
GWANGJU, Feb. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — KT Corp., a South Korean telecom giant, said Wednesday that the positive effects of a welfare service using artificial intelligence (AI) technology had been proved for the first time in the country. A research team from Chonnam National University conducted a complete enumeration survey of 212 people using KT [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s science ministry said Wednesday it has opened a massive computing data center for artificial intelligence studies as part of the country’s plan to build a world-class AI research network. The Research Data Center of AI Innovation Hub, located in the Seoul campus of Korea University, is a [...]