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Generative AI could increase S. Korea's productive capacity by up to $476 mln: study
SEOUL -- Generative AI, a type of artificial intelligence, has the potential to unlock South Korea's productive capacity by up to $476.6 million, equivalent to 29 percent of the country's gross domestic product in 2022, a joint study conducted by the Korean Chamber of Commerce and Industry, American tech giant Microsoft, and Access Partnership, a London-based technology-focused public policy consultancy, showed. Generative AI is a type of AI that can produce new content, such a
29 August 2023
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Medical AI company Lunit unveils plan to become medical big data platform operator
SEOUL -- South Korea's medical artificial intelligence company Lunit revealed its plan to make a foray into the AI-based medical big data platform market. The company, specializing in chest and breast cancer X-ray analysis, will integrate and manage various health data from medical facilities across the world to improve the diagnosis accuracy of all kinds of cancer and the prediction of treatment outcomes. The South Korean AI solution developer is known for AI Lunit INSIGHT MMG, a
24 August 2023
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Game publisher Nexon to adopt Samsung's video processing technology for third-person shooter game
SEOUL -- Major South Korean game publisher Nexon has become the world's first game publisher to adopt Samsung's "HDR10+," a video processing technology standard that can provide accurate and vibrant colors in real-time. The technology will be used for the game publisher's "The First Descendant," a third-person shooter game that incorporates role-playing features. While the previous HDR video technology processes images on the basis of a whole volume, HDR
21 August 2023
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KT embarks on defense project to upgrade military broadband communication network
SEOUL -- South Korea's major telecom company KT has started a defense project to upgrade a military communication network that will connect more than 2,000 units with an integrated management system. The high-speed communication network, which is currently built only near frontline army units, will be expanded to other branches including the Navy and Air Force. KT was selected as the preferred bitter for the project to build the next-generation military-broadband convergence networ
10 August 2023
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AI care robots look after elderly living alone in rural region
SEOUL -- Artificial intelligence-based care robots were provided to old people living alone in a rural region in South Korea's eastern province. The companion robots help residents become emotionally stable by asking them how they are faring while monitoring their conditions, and warn guardians in case of an emergency. The robots created by South Korea's AI care robot developer Hyodol were distributed to 15 selected residents, Cheongsong County Office said. The doll-sha
9 August 2023
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Global competition for first-person shooter game 'CrossFire' to be held in Ho Chi Minh City
SEOUL -- Smilegate Entertainment, a South Korean game publisher, will host a global competition for CrossFire, a first-person shooter game with about eight million monthly active users, in Viet Nam's Ho Chi Minh City. Players from eight countries including China, Brazil, and the Philippines will compete to win prize money of $300,000. The event will be broadcast in English, Vietnamese, and Chinese. The first-person shooter game, released in 2007, features a war between two privat
7 August 2023
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Upstage's generative AI model receives highest score on global AI language model scoreboard
SEOUL -- A generative artificial intelligence service created by South Korea's AI startup Upstage has received the highest score on an international large language model scoreboard run by Hugging Face, a New York City-based AI company. The AI model that can understand, summarize, generate, and predict new content has competed with some 500 models including GPT-3, a Chat GPT-based service. ChatGPT, made by Open AI, is one of the most widely used large language model (LLM)-based chat
1 August 2023
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Lunit to provide AI solution for breast cancer to Middle East
SEOUL -- "Lunit INSIGHT MMG," a solution specializing in detecting breast cancer created by South Korea's medical artificial intelligence company Lunit, will be supplied to hospitals operated by Dr. Sulaiman Al Habib Medical Group, a major healthcare provider in the Middle East. The Saudi Arabia-based group runs more than 20 hospitals in various regions including the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain. Lunit INSIGHT MMG compares and analyzes X-rays and medical images of bre
26 July 2023
