DAEJEON, Sept. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — The Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) said Thursday that it developed a new artificial intelligence (AI) technology to analyze the harmfulness of video content. After searching websites on the basis of registered keywords, the new AI detects harmful content by analyzing the websites’ text and images. The AI [...]
GWANGJU, Sept. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s first artificial intelligence (AI) songwriter EvoM will be showcasing a music piece in the AI exhibition hall at the Gwangju Design Biennale 2021, which began on Wednesday for a two-month run in Gwangju, 330 kilometers south of Seoul. Visitors can write songs with EvoM using MUSIA, the [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. on Tuesday said it aims to expand its memory products powered by its artificial intelligence (AI) engine as the South Korean tech giant is pushing to increase its technology leadership in the semiconductor market. Samsung, the world’s largest memory chip supplier, showcased its latest processing-in-memory (PIM) [...]
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 [...]
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, 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 [...]
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) — South Korean telecom giant KT Corp. said Sunday that it began an AI (artificial intelligence) Robot Mail Delivery Service for management staff working at the company’s main headquarters. Previously, the support center notified employees when there was a delivery, and each staff member had to visit the center to [...]
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 [...]
SEOUL, April 6 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean companies pointed to the difficulty in securing professionals as the biggest hurdle preventing them from adopting artificial intelligence (AI), a local think tank said Monday. The state-run Korea Institute for Industrial Economics and Trade recently conducted a survey of 283 companies, with 53 percent of them choosing [...]