SEOUL, Jan. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will spend 24.2 trillion won (US$21 billion) of the state budget to nurture the science and technology and artificial intelligence sectors, the science ministry said Thursday. The state-led research and development budget represents a sharp 18 percent on-year spike from a little over 20 trillion won in [...]
LAS VEGAS, Jan. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — The world’s biggest tech expo wrapped up its four-day journey here Friday after global players introduced their latest achievements, particularly in artificial intelligence (AI) and mobility solutions. The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2020 in Las Vegas, Nevada, featured some 4,500 exhibiting firms with more than 170,000 people visiting [...]
LAS VEGAS, Jan. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co. is ready to work with various partners in the field of artificial intelligence (AI), the CEO of South Korea’s top mobile carrier said Wednesday, as he urged other South Korean players to join hands to lead the advanced technology. SK Telecom CEO Park Jung-ho said [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Electronics Inc., a major South Korean tech firm, said Sunday it will joins hands with a Canadian startup to research and develop artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. Under the partnership with Element AI Inc., LG Electronics will collaborate in developing human-like algorithms that can be applied to various products [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Seocho District in Seoul will introduce artificial intelligence (AI) CCTV technology, which uses criminal statistics information to predict possible crimes, as early as July. The district said Thursday that it is developing related technologies with the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), and will apply the technology to some [...]
GWANGJU, Dec. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean researchers have developed a system that can analyze black box videos with artificial intelligence (AI) to determine who is responsible for traffic accidents. The AI accident assessment system developed by a research team from the Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST) does not involve humans directly, [...]
SINAN, Dec. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean Go icon Lee Se-dol closed out his illustrious career on Saturday with a second consecutive loss to home-developed artificial intelligence (AI) program HanDol. HanDol, developed by South Korea’s NHN Entertainment Corp., took down the 36-year-old master after 181 stones in Lee’s final match, held in his hometown [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Delivery Hero, a Germany-based online delivery service provider, said Thursday that it has developed artificial intelligence (AI) technology that screens out fake reviews. The technology developed by Delivery Hero Korea, which runs the delivery apps Yogiyo and Baedaltong, is a deep learning-based automatic classification AI process model that filters [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean Go master Lee Se-dol dropped a match against home-developed artificial intelligence (AI) program HanDol on Thursday, as his retirement match series became knotted at one game apiece. Lee had defeated HanDol, developed by South Korea’s NHN Entertainment Corp., in Wednesday’s match after opening with a two-stone advantage. [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — In the first match of his retirement series, South Korean Go master Lee Se-dol defeated home-developed artificial intelligence (AI) program HanDol on Wednesday. Lee secured the victory after 92 stones thanks to an early blunder by HanDol, a program developed by South Korea’s NHN Entertainment Corp. Lee announced his [...]