SEOUL, April 6 (Korea Bizwire) – Eight out of ten people in South Korea believe the fourth industrial revolution will see advanced technologies such as AI and automation take away jobs from people, a recent survey has revealed. The survey, conducted by market researcher Trend Monitor and published yesterday, asked 1,000 smartphone users aged between [...]
SEOUL, March 30 (Korea Bizwire) – A wave of artificial intelligence (AI) is sweeping the retail industry in South Korea, as major department stores and online shopping malls rush to adopt the latest technology to attract consumers. Shinsegae is the first in the retail industry to deploy a marketing strategy involving AI technology. Starting today, Shinsegae [...]
SEOUL, March 7 (Korea Bizwire) –Delivery Nation, the top-ranked delivery app in Korea, has begun to develop artificial intelligence (AI) for food menu recommendations. Woowa Brothers Corp., which operates Delivery Nation, announced that it will launch the industry’s first artificial intelligence project, dubbed ‘BaeMin-David’, and start developing related technologies such as an interactive robot (chatbot). [...]
GAITHERSBURG, Md., Feb. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — BroadSoft, Inc. (NASDAQ:BSFT), a global unified communication software as a service (UCaaS) leader, today announced two significant enhancements to its bMobile advanced mobility solution: Artificial intelligence capabilities and Apple CallKit support for BroadSoft Business UC-One mobile apps that provide business users with a superior mobile user experience over [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 15 (Korea Bizwire) – The first snowstorm of this winter, on Wednesday, was bad news for a lot of the residents and travelers in the affected regions, but for AI quarantine officials, who have been struggling to contain the nationwide H5N6 virus, it was a pleasant omen. More than 14 million poultry have [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – Gachon University Gil Hospital gained widespread media attention when it announced last month that it would introduce IBM’s Watson for Oncology, an AI-based super computer, for cancer diagnosis and treatment. The system was due to launch mid-October amid high industry expectations, until news broke out early Friday morning that [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea said on Tuesday it will push to nurture artificial intelligence (AI), unmanned vehicle technologies and seven other key IT fields as new growth engines. The announcement was made at a science and technology strategy session presided over by President Park Geun-hye, the Ministry of Science, ICT and [...]
SUWON, Aug. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – Humans have given machines yet another opportunity to triumph over their creators, this time in music composition. Emily Howell, an AI program that creates its own musical compositions, is challenging the indisputable classical period genius Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart on Wednesday night at the Gyeonggi Arts Center. During the night’s [...]
SEOUL, July 12 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s top conglomerate Samsung Group said Tuesday that its future technology will center on artificial intelligence (AI) and the Internet of Things (IoT). Of 32 research projects spearheaded by the group between 2014 and 2016 which are aimed at accelerating technology innovation, six were related to AI, the [...]
SEOUL, June 13 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Telecom’s secret project has finally been revealed. The Korean telecommunications giant worked with Guy Hoffman from Cornell University, a world-renowned robot scholar, to develop an AI smart home robot called Vyo. The project was made public via an international academic journal published by the IEEE (Institute of Electrical [...]