SEOUL, July 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Nearly four out of 10 South Korean manufacturers are currently using artificial intelligence (AI) technology, a survey showed Wednesday. According to a survey conducted by global public cloud service operator Google Cloud of 1,154 executives at manufacturers in seven countries, only 39 percent of Korean firms replied that they [...]
LOS ANGELES, July 26 (Korea Bizwire) – Eyenuk, Inc., a global artificial intelligence (AI) medical technology and services company and the leader in real-world applications for AI Eye Screening, announced that its EyeArt® AI system for diabetic eye testing has been chosen for deployment in 4 hospitals in Binh Dinh Province, Vietnam. The project is funded [...]
SEOUL, July 26 (Korea Bizwire) — So-called ‘edutech’ businesses that graft new technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), virtual reality (VR) and big data into the educational space are enjoying rising popularity in South Korea. Kim Mi-kyung, a popular lecturer and dean of online university MKYU, recently joined hands with AI start-up MINDs Lab Inc. [...]
SEOUL, July 19 (Korea Bizwire) — E-Mart24 Inc., the convenience store arm of South Korean retail giant Shinsegae, introduced an artificial intelligence (AI)-based unmanned liquor vending machine at its main store in Seoul’s Seongdong District on Monday. The vending machine, similar to a liquor refrigerator, automatically processes payments after customers select their beverages of choice. [...]
SEOUL, July 16 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean online gaming giant NCSOFT Corp. has introduced an artificial intelligence (AI)-based translation engine for the first time in the country’s gaming industry. Users can now access real-time translation service between Korean and English on ‘Purple Talk,’ a messenger service available on ‘Purple,’ NCSOFT’s gaming platform. The new [...]
London, United Kingdom, July 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Cancer informatics and digital pathology provider Inspirata announced today that King’s Health Partners ECMC and Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust will pilot its Trial Navigator™ software as part of an evaluation the organisations are conducting into how artificial intelligence based automation can improve the identification and efficiency of matching patients with cancer to [...]
SEOUL, July 12 (Korea Bizwire) — A new artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm has been developed that can predict lung cancer patients’ response to immuno-oncology treatment on the basis of their clinical information. A joint research team from the Yonsei Cancer Hospital and the Yonsei University Medical School said it had developed a machine learning-based algorithm [...]
SEOUL, June 30 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s leading internet portal operator Naver Corp. said Tuesday that it will roll out the upgraded version of its artificial intelligence (AI) image monitoring technology ‘X-eye’ from July. X-eye refers to proprietary technology that prevents obscene materials from being exposed in search results by monitoring them on a [...]
SEOUL, June 29 (Korea Bizwire) — The government has established an artificial intelligence (AI)-based electric supervision system for people wearing electronic ankle monitors as part of efforts to manage them in a more efficient manner as well as to prevent any recidivism. Early this year, the Ministry of Justice announced that it had introduced an [...]
SEOUL, June 29 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co., South Korea’s largest mobile carrier, said Monday it was partnering with the Chungnam National University College of Veterinary Medicine to develop an artificial intelligence (AI)-based veterinary image diagnosis assistance solution. The AI-based solution is aimed at helping veterinarians with the diagnosis process by automatically decoding X-ray [...]