CHANGWON, Oct. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — South Gyeongsang Province is offering artificial intelligence (AI) and big data-based forecasts for prices of various crops to help farmers boost their income. The province introduced the price forecast system last April, the first of its kind in South Korea. The system offers forecasts on the prices of garlic, [...]
DAEJEON, Oct. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean researchers have developed a new artificial intelligence (AI) technology that enables robots to complete their assigned missions by making independent decisions on what actions to take. The state-run Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) announced on Tuesday that it had developed ‘ActionBrain’ technology that clears the way [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea targets to develop up to 50 types of artificial intelligence-focused system semiconductors by 2030, the ICT ministry said Monday, as the country strives to take a leading position in the semiconductor sector beyond its traditional foothold in memory chips. AI chips refer to high performance and power [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — An artificial intelligence (AI)-based service offered by a major web portal is now embroiled in controversy over fairness. The Fair Trade Commission recently ordered Naver Corp., the nation’s biggest search engine, to pay a 26.7 billion won (US$22.9 million) fine for manipulating search algorithms for shopping and videos to [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co., South Korea’s largest mobile carrier, said Monday it launched an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered phone calling application, as it seeks to bolster its presence in AI technology. The mobile carrier said it integrated its NUGU AI platform, currently used in smart home devices, with its T Phone [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. said Tuesday it will hold an artificial intelligence (AI) forum online next month to share experts’ insights on future technologies related to human-like algorithms amid the pandemic. The South Korean tech giant said the Samsung AI Forum 2020 will take place online via its YouTube channel [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean government agencies are set to cooperate to develop an artificial intelligence (AI) system that uses big data to identify counterfeit products. The Ministry of Science and ICT and the Korea Customs Service recently opened an AI empirical lab to identify illegal counterfeit products at the D-Station of [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul’s Gangdong District, jointly with LG Uplus Corp., plans to introduce artificial intelligence (AI) for the protection of abandoned animals. The district will use the AI to collect data by observing diseases or abnormal activities, and monitoring the status of each abandoned animal brought in for protection. An AI [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Genie Music, the music streaming subsidiary of telecommunications giant KT Corp., released South Korea’s very first music album for children produced by artificial intelligence (AI) on Thursday. The album was created using the Artificial Intelligence System of Music (AISM), an AI-based composition program developed by UPVOTE Entertainment. AISM produces [...]
DAEJEON, Sept. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s top-ranked science and technology university has unveiled a plan to set up a public database aimed at developing emotional intelligence technology-based artificial intelligence (AI) services. The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) announced on Thursday that it will launch an AI big data center to [...]