SEOUL, Dec. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean telecom giant KT Corp. said Wednesday it was launching a trial of an artificial intelligence (AI)-based digital transformation (DX) service for the restaurant industry in collaboration with local dining company Sun at Food Co. The service allows restaurant customers to speak their requirements to a KT AI [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean researchers have developed new technology that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to anticipate the effects of chemotherapy for breast cancer patients. The Korea Institute of Radiological Medical Sciences announced recently that an AI deep learning mechanism can be used to anticipate the effects of chemotherapy for breast cancer [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Group, South Korea’s fourth-largest conglomerate, said Monday it has established an artificial intelligence (AI) research hub to explore growth opportunities and secure future technologies related with human-like algorithms. LG AI Research is joined by 16 affiliates of LG Group, including LG Electronics Inc. and LG Chem Ltd., to [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea plans to nurture 100,000 talented individuals in the artificial intelligence (AI) sector by 2025 by supporting related graduate schools and colleges centering on software development, the finance minister said Thursday. Finance Minister Hong Nam-ki also said the country plans to spend more than 23 billion won (US$21 [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – The state-run Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute has developed a new artificial intelligence (AI)-based technology that anticipates the risk of coronavirus infection at populated facilities. The research team used the institute’s content creation software designed for simulating an accident at a nuclear power plant to render a populated facility [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Artificial intelligence (AI) will be introduced as a new subject in local high schools next year before being expanded to the curriculums of kindergartens and elementary and middle schools by 2025, the education ministry said Friday, declaring a bid to strengthen AI education in preparation for a digital future. [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean company has been selected to develop an artificial intelligence (AI) staff officer that would provide analysis and statistical information for decision-making by military commanders. Hanwha Systems Co., a solution provider for defense electronics, recently announced that it was selected as a prime negotiator by the Agency [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent study has revealed that artificial intelligence (AI) can predict the mutation of genes. If this technology is commercialized, it could contribute to identifying the cause of genetic diseases and curing them promptly. A joint research team composed of researchers from the Gangnam Severance Hospital and the Asan [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Riding a bicycle is no longer a pipe dream for those with physical disabilities. A research team spearheaded by Prof. Shin Dong-jun from Chung-Ang University announced Monday that it had developed ImProB, a robot bicycle that uses an artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm to measure the muscular status of the [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co. announced Thursday the launch of a new artificial intelligence (AI) voicebot for customer service. The mobile carrier said that the voicebot comes with voice recognition, language comprehension and voice synthesis capabilities to understand and analyze complex sentences spoken by customers. Customers can now skip the automatic [...]