SEOUL, June 1 (Korea Bizwire) – With artificial intelligence rapidly spreading across global industries, the latest study from the National Information Society Agency (NIA) has revealed that South Korean startups tend to focus their AI development on the medical and convenience service sectors. The NIA based its study on 19 startups here that had a [...]
SEOUL, May 9 (Korea Bizwire) – Naver Corp., South Korea’s top Internet portal operator, plans to unveil an artificial intelligence (AI) embedded smart speaker, the WAVE, this summer, industry sources said Tuesday. According to the sources, Naver and its Japanese affiliate LINE Corp. are working to launch the smart speaker based on its AI virtual [...]
SEOUL, April 21 (Korea Bizwire) – Smart door locks, incorporating artificial intelligence or Internet of Things technologies, are gradually emerging as the next big trend for security systems in South Korea. According to the Korea Intellectual Property Office, the number of IoT door lock patent applications surged to 27 in 2014 and 48 in 2015. [...]
SEOUL, April 17 (Korea Bizwire) – Microsoft Korea, the local unit of U.S. software giant Microsoft Corp. said Monday that it has added an artificial intelligence (AI) function to its cloud-computing service, Office 365. The company said Word, Outlook, PowerPoint and Excel will be backed up by various cloud-powered AI capabilities through data centers in [...]
SEOUL, March 21 (Korea Bizwire) – The Korea Institute of S&T (Science and Technology) Evaluation and Planning presented Monday the top ten promising technologies of the future, which included artificial intelligence that tracks down fake news. Fake news has become a serious social issue for South Korea, as for the rest of the world, costing [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — The government unveiled its research and development (R&D) plan for next year on Tuesday to secure a new growth strategy to cope with the fast-paced industrial transformation going forward. Under the road map crafted by the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning, the government will increase R&D productivity [...]
DAEGU, Feb. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – The Daegu Metropolitan Government has become the first government body to adopt artificial intelligence in its civil affairs administration. Dubbed “Ddubot,” after Daegu Duduriso Chatbot, the system launched as part of a pilot project on Monday. It can be used on smartphones and personal computers by local residents who [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – Artificial intelligence (AI) language software by U.S. Internet giant Google Inc., scored higher than its rival AI machines in a translation battle between humans and machines held in South Korea earlier this week, industry officials said Wednesday. On Tuesday, a group of four professional translators competed against three AI-powered [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – Two major South Korean web portals – Naver and Daum – have introduced artificial intelligence mechanisms that can recommend news articles to viewers. Article arrangement is a crucial part of the news editing process, and considering that Naver and Daum are two of the most popular platforms for South [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – Naver, South Korea’s leading web portal, said Friday that it is launching a beta service for AIRS (AI Recommender System), the company’s up and coming AI system that will now recommend news articles based on one’s web content consumption patterns, time spent, and personal interests. The company said that [...]