SEOUL, Aug. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s dominant internet portal operator Naver Corp. said Thursday it had updated its artificial intelligence (AI)-based voice recording service CLOVA Note and added an AI summary function. The new function makes use of Naver’s supersized AI platform HyperCLOVA to divide the section of dialogue by theme and automatically [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will provide various forms of support to help local financial firms more actively use fast-advancing artificial intelligence (AI) technology in their businesses, a top financial regulator said Thursday. In a meeting with major financial and tech companies in Seoul, Kim So-young, vice chair of the Financial Services [...]
DAEJEON, July 28 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) said Wednesday it had developed new artificial intelligence (AI) technology that can automatically decode chest X-ray images, identifying illnesses such as tuberculosis, pneumothorax and COVID-19. In collaboration with a domestic hospital, the research team developed a new AI algorithm featuring [...]
STOCKHOLM, July 18 (Korea Bizwire) – RiotMinds, awarded fantasy and horror publisher, announced today a new project with AI-only generated pictures, all embedded in a fantastic story about a long-forgotten order. Art of The Order of the Tormented Souls is the first complete coffee-table artbook with AI-only generated art. The book was launched as a Kickstarter [...]
SANTA MONICA, Calif., July 14 (Korea Bizwire) — DroneBase, the leader in intelligent imaging, today announced the acquisition of U.K.-based Inspection², the leading provider of AI-enabled aerial inspections in the U.K. and Europe. With the acquisition, DroneBase continues to accelerate its global expansion, adding capabilities and services for the telecommunications, and transmission & distribution sectors [...]
SEOUL, July 8 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government said Thursday that it will develop a new artificial intelligence (AI) service that automatically searches and deletes video footage of sexual crime online. The service is capable of tracking down videos of sexual crime online with high accuracy, sending out requests to take the videos [...]
SEOUL, July 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Two of South Korea’s biggest hospitals plan to develop an artificial intelligence (AI)-based platform to ensure early detection and diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) for infants. A consortium formed by Seoul National University Hospital and Severance Hospital was selected as the lead organization for the development of ASD [...]
SEOUL, July 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Kakao Enterprise Corp., an artificial intelligence (AI) unit of the country’s largest mobile messenger operator Kakao Corp., ranked first in the kiosk category of the Face Recognition Vendor Test (FRVT) conducted by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology. The FRVT is a globally-renowned facial recognition test that [...]
SEOUL, June 17 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ministry of Science and ICT said Thursday that it had launched a pilot project to enable universities and small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to share ultra-large artificial intelligence (AI) models developed by large companies. Ultra-large AI refers to next-generation AI technology that uses large-capacity data and supercomputing infrastructure [...]
SEOUL, June 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Police plan to expand the use of artificial intelligence (AI)-based voice recognition systems when investigating cases of sexual violence. The National Police Agency said Monday it will introduce an AI-based voice recognition system at 38 police stations in second-tier regions, Women and Youth Divisions at city and municipal-level police [...]