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 [...]
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 [...]