SEOUL, July 13 (Korea Bizwire) — U.S. tech giant Google has seen great potential for artificial intelligence (AI) technologies in South Korea, as it has chosen Korean as its priority service language besides English for its AI-based chatbot, Bard, a senior company official said Thursday. “With Bard launched in Korean in 2023, this is one [...]
SEOUL, July 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Visual storytelling skills are essential to become a professional webtoon artist, but advancing artificial intelligence (AI) technology is now capable of creating images and text, and challenging the industry in a fundamental way. Webtoons, a type of digital comics read on smartphones, tablets and PCs, have emerged as a [...]
SEOUL, April 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Generative artificial intelligence (AI) technology has brought a paradigm shift in the IT industry, making it inevitable for the government to readjust its AI policy. The data labeling project in the Digital New Deal initiative is a representative example of this shift, which is part of the Korean New [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea plans to have 30 percent of local companies adopt artificial intelligence (AI) technologies by 2030 to beef up competitiveness of local industries, the industry ministry said Friday. The target marks a sharp rise from the current estimate of 1 percent, according to the Ministry of Trade, Industry [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Amid intensified global competition to attract high-caliber talent in the science and research areas, South Korea’s artificial intelligence (AI) brain drain remains at a serious level, a state-backed science education institute said. Asia’s fourth-largest economy scored -35.04 in the index indicating the flow of AI talent (AI talent index) [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea plans to invest 107.6 billion won (US$90.1 million) this year to push ahead with a major project to build an artificial intelligence complex by 2024, the science ministry said Monday. In November last year, South Korea broke ground for a mass-scale construction project in Gwangju, 330 kilometers [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government plans to start a trial of an artificial intelligence (AI) phone call service to say hello to about 300 middle-aged individuals living alone in Seoul within the first half of this year. The service will use an AI program designed to make phone calls to [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Artificial intelligence (AI) is making its way to some of the hottest spaces frequented by department store visitors: beauty select shops. Retail giant Shinsegae Group announced on Monday that Chicor, its beauty select shop chain, will display an advanced type of pop-up store in which ‘Zmirror’ — a smart [...]
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 [...]