SEOUL, May 13 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s ICT ministry said Thursday it will create guidelines and verification processes to create trustworthy artificial intelligence (AI) services in a move to address potential social problems. AI services have recently faced growing calls for more responsible development and management of the technology over concerns that the technology [...]
DAEJEON, May 10 (Korea Bizwire) — A new artificial intelligence (AI) system has been developed to monitor the abnormal behaviors of subway passengers in the central city of Daejeon. The Daejeon Metropolitan City Government and the Daejeon Express Transit Corp. jointly announced that the ‘AI Edge System for Urban Railroads’ was selected as a state-backed [...]
SEOUL, May 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung SDS Co., an IT service unit of Samsung Group, on Sunday said it is expanding its ‘AICC’ artificial intelligence (AI)-based intelligent contact center solution business. AICC refers to a solution designed to improve work efficiency by employing AI-based virtual consultation and analysis functions, including NLU (natural language understanding), [...]
SEOUL, May 6 (Korea Bizwire) — KT Corp., a South Korean telecom giant, said Thursday it has formed business ties with IBM Korea and local major banking firm Woori Bank to develop artificial intelligence (AI) technology for financial services. The three will establish an AI lab to develop new services, such as an AI-based language [...]
NEW YORK, May 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Epiq, a global technology-enabled services leader for corporate legal departments and law firms, today announced that it is providing a unique combination of pre-built AI models, a team of experts, and an innovative program to help its Epiq eDiscovery Managed Services clients create, build, and nurture their own [...]
SEOUL, April 28 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seocho District Office in Seoul has announced plans to expand its non-face-to-face library service through the use of artificial intelligence (AI). The district will introduce a chatbot service to enable users to search for, reserve and make new book applications in an all-in-one format, as well as to [...]
SEOUL, April 28 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea is actively pursuing the modernization of education evaluation methods by introducing artificial intelligence (AI) for foreign language tests. Echo of Unification, a North Korean radio station that broadcasts propaganda towards South Korea, said on Tuesday that Pyongsong Normal University has created a foreign language exam using AI [...]
SEOUL, April 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. on Tuesday launched a new robot vacuum cleaner with upgraded artificial intelligence (AI) solutions here as the tech giant eyes to boost home appliance sales amid the pandemic-driven stay-at-home trend. The BESPOKE JetBot AI vacuum cleaner comes in five colors at a price of 1.59 million [...]
SEOUL, April 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Artificial intelligence (AI) technology is being used as eyes and ears for disabled persons, raising accessibility to media. This technology is expected to allow disabled persons to enjoy the equivalent amount of access to media as non-disabled persons, particularly as media consumption continues to rise following the coronavirus outbreak. [...]
SEOUL, April 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Major South Korean lender Woori Bank has launched a drive to develop an artificial intelligence (AI) banker. The bank said recently that it had signed a business agreement with LionRocket, a local tech startup specializing in deep learning-based image synthesis technologies, for development of the AI banker. The AI [...]