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According to Asahi, they appealed that AI has increased the possibility of losing their jobs and demanded that the rights of related industries be stipulated. This trend is spreading around the world as writers in Hollywood, the U.S., as well as in Japan, offer copyright protection from AI as a condition for strike negotiations. One actor who participated in the interview said, “Filming takes a long time, but if AI is introduced, it can scan images and movements and synthesize them regardless of age or gender even if it takes a few days.” An active stuntman also said, “If only AI (synthetic) is used and manpower is reduced because it is dangerous, active players will not be able to pass on the technology in this field, and active players will face life and death problems.”Director Koji Fukada of the movie “Love Life” also voiced his concern about the progress of AI technology, saying, “The movie industry is also participating in the position of freelancers,” adding, “We are concerned that the instability will accelerate further (with the development of AI).”Actor Megumi Morisaki said in a press conference, “We submitted a request to the state to disclose what data AI generated when creating content and to stipulate that it should pay the creator.”"In the future, movies, dramas, songs, and animations may be automatically created using their appearances or voices even if real actors do not act,” lawyer Sato Yamato said in a written statement. “In the case of data used by AI, we need to revise laws.”Hitoshi Matsubara, a professor of information engineering at Tokyo University, told Asahi, “It is natural for creators in other fields to worry about art without permission,” adding, “AI, which produces video and music, is still low in performance, but in the early stages of development, human-made works are essential.” “We need to persuade copyright holders and proceed with development,” he stressed. For this, a new form of payment is also needed, Matsubara added. In New York, Hollywood film and broadcasting program writers from the Writers’ Association of America (WGA) argued that the use of artificial intelligence (AI) should be restricted when writing movies or TV scripts.

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They say that the author should not be asked to modify the script created by AI.More than 11,500 Hollywood film and broadcasting program writers from the U.S. Writers’ Association (WGA) went on strike on the 2nd due to the breakdown of wage negotiations with the Association of Film and Television Program Producers (AMPTP). As the intensity of content production has increased due to the recent rapid growth of online video services (OTT), they demand to improve the poor working conditions in which many people receive the minimum wage.However, another pillar of the strike is the demand to restrict the use of artificial intelligence (AI) when writing scripts for movies and TV. Producers should not arbitrarily create new scripts from scripts written by writers using AI or ask writers to modify scripts created using AI. Warren Raitt, executive producer and screenwriter of NBC’s drama “Law and Order,” said in an interview with Reuters on the 4th, “For production companies, it’s a way to reduce costs rather than leave it to writers from the beginning,” adding, “But all AI can do is spit out distorted works.”The strike has led to the cancellation of some TV talk shows or the suspension of writing works. Production of late-night talk shows such as “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” (Jimmy Fallon Show) and “Saturday Night Live” (SNL) has been suspended. In addition, the broadcast was postponed due to the suspension of writing programs such as the sequel to Game of Thrones produced by Warner Bros., including the popular Netflix series “Stranger Things.”

KS CHOI
Asia Journal

Infomining in South Korea has currently registered five domestic patents related to medical AI, including single measurement systems, emergency monitoring, hospital control systems, smart quarantine systems, and information provision technologies and systems for disease diagnosis and medical institutions. Two solutions, including natural language processing using artificial intelligence and an electrocardiogram measurement system, have been recently applied for domestic patients.

Natural language processing technology enables natural conversations for patients’ self-diagnosis through AI. For example, if a patient asks, “I coughed a lot. Why do I cough?” and the AI illogically replies back, “Did you cough?”, we should conclude that the solution is useless. At least, the fully-fledged AI has to chat to ask you questions like “Do you have pain in your stomach, too?”, “Which part of your lower or upper stomach hurts?” or so on. The accuracy of natural language processing AI developed by Infomining is 90%. In other words, 9 out of 10 answers are appropriate for the situation. This is far above the accuracy of the widely known GPT or BERT-based natural language processing AI model (50-72%).

Recently, Infomining’s AI electrocardiogram measurement system has surpassed the level of Google and IBM. The disease was predicted with about 84% accuracy in the F1 score, a medical indicator related to ECG. Google and IBM had this value of 83%. This technology was selected as the best prize in the “Echocardiogram/Echocardiogram AI Model Dataton 2021″ on the 15th. Currently, it is preparing related papers to submit them to the world’s most prestigious AI conference, NeurIPS (Nips).

Smart Healthcare (Digital Healthcare) is an industrial field that deals with information, devices, systems, and platforms on personal health and medical care, and is a comprehensive medical service that combines health-related services with medical ICT (Information and Communication Technology). It is growing rapidly around the world, and is emerging as the most influential convergence field in the era of the 4th industrial revolution.

According to a report released by the Information and Communication Industry Promotion Agency, the global artificial intelligence healthcare market is expected to reach $754.7 million (about 847.5 billion won) in 2020 from $1.79 billion won in 2015 to 25.6 billion won in 2020.

As artificial intelligence technology is expected to create innovative value in the healthcare industry, global companies are competitively investing in the field of artificial intelligence healthcare, and Korea is considered competitive in the global smart healthcare market as it has the world’s best ICT technology.

CEO Lee said, “We have implemented the performance of global AI or exceeded that level in a certain area. Based on this, we have developed integrated medical solutions and are upgrading technology.”

Kyobo Life Insurance announced on Jan 5th that it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with MyData-based startups to expand financial MyData services.

Kyobo Life Insurance plans to expand its MyData service area with this MOU and accelerate the launch of its upcoming official service. Kyobo Life Insurance aims to launch an official service within this month after obtaining the MyData business license from the Financial Services Commission for the first time in the insurance industry in July last year.

According to Kyobo Life Insurance, the two companies that signed the MOU this time are “Infomining” and “Enable Daon Soft,” promising startups that are recognized for their innovation in different areas.

Infomining is a company specialized in smart healthcare services. It is a startup that has proven its excellence through certification as a technology-specific venture company and winning the AI (Artificial Intelligence) Championship. Kyobo Life Insurance plans to jointly discover and commercialize ideas so that it can motivate customers to promote health and provide customized health solutions through information mining and health data utilization and analysis.

“Enable Daon Soft” is a startup that is developing and operating a military service called “The Camp.” Through this business partnership, Kyobo Life Insurance will promote the development of financial education contents for military soldiers and the development of customized financial products for soldiers.

The company, which won the grand prize in the public sector of the Korea Mobile Awards, provides military enlistment information and community functions for military families through applications. The cumulative number of subscribers is 3.6 million and the number of monthly users (MAU) is 700,000.

Kyobo Life Insurance’s goal is to help people live a healthy and proper financial life. Kyobo Life Insurance said officially, “We plan to create and provide MyData services that revive Kyobo Life’s identity so that customers can understand and take the lead in financial life.

It specializes in AI solutions that patients plan in advance or medical staff use to improve work efficiency. It has developed ‘Hearty Hearty’, a solution with world-class performance in natural language processing and bio-signal analysis. We are currently conducting clinical trials in collaboration with various hospitals and institutions.”

▲ INFOMINING CO., LTD

▲ CEO : Jae-yong Lee

▲ http://infomining.co.kr

▲ worldconsult@infomining.co.kr

▲ +82-70-4914-2970

Sam Kim

Asia Jounal

The era of quantum computers. Now that Moore’s law has been broken and computer performance improvement has reached its limit, quantum computers based on a new computational principle of quantum shaking are drawing attention. One of Moore’s Law’s three principles of the Internet economy is that the density of microchips doubles every 24 months. Gordon Moore, a researcher at Fairchild, revised the law to 24 months in 1975 in anticipation of doubling the capacity of microchips every 18 months. It is about the speed of microchip development, and the law is that the amount of data that can be stored in a chip increases rapidly.

Quantum computers realize an unimaginable computational speed by simultaneously performing computations of 2n” distances from n bits, using “quantum bits” that can take both forms of 0 and 1 at the same time. There are two types of quantum computers: a “quantum gate method” that can be calculated universally and a “quantum annealing method” that specializes in solving combination optimization problems. The latter is being applied to real-time optimal control such as automatic driving or improvement of machine learning performance. However, it is the electron that has a greater impact on artificial intelligence (Al). The former not only has universality applicable to all AI, but also enables precise simulation of the human brain, which leads to the realization of Al’s ultimate goal, universal intelligence. Unfortunately, electrons can only be done at dozens of quantum bits, and it still takes a considerable amount of time to put them into practical use.

Advanced countries are engaged in a fierce head-to-head fight in the field of AI, but it is quantum computers that hold the key to winning or losing. In other words, users favor countries that have quickly realized quantum computer marks. In fact, AI is moving on a high-speed quantum computer. AI’s program proceeds from machine learning to deep learning (deep reinforcement learning), but if you can produce high-performance quantum computers cheaply and in large quantities, you can come up with a “domestic” deep learning structure. And countries or companies that have completed products for the general market according to the combination of domestic quantum computers and machine learning will dominate the world in the future. In fact, the world’s structure has changed significantly over the past 20 years. With the advent of the world’s common PCs, OS (basic software), and apps, the way they work has changed dramatically, and the business structure has changed with the spread of the Internet. Now, high skills are unnecessary, and what ordinary people want to do on the web is intuitively doing from work to games.The Internet has also changed human culture. When the Internet appeared, some people expected that “newspapers, TVs, movies, and publishing industries may disappear at this rate,” but it is becoming a reality in just 20 years, and they are rapidly disappearing due to the COVID-19 situation from Wuhan, China.

Computers have no corporate monopoly and intellectual industry interests, and in addition, they have created a structure that can be sold directly on the Internet. The distribution economy so far has fundamentally changed. It took 20 years to get here, but AI was much faster and quickly available to everyone around the world. “When new smartphones and apps that can move AI appear, the era of personal quantum computers comes.” Then people don’t have to search as they are now, and they can quickly see what they want based on AI’s judgment. AI becomes a daily life that solves various problems. The world changes dramatically. At this time, the country that takes the lead in the global economy is a country with domestic quantum computers and AI that learns machines at high speed. Whether Korea or Japan will be able to intervene in the competition or remain as an economic powerhouse will be determined.

The Sapiens Warrior, written by world-renowned best-selling writer Noah Halari, says three revolutions have occurred in mankind so far; 1) Recognition Revolution, 2) Agricultural Revolution, and 3) Scientific Revolution. Yuval Noah Halari, a history professor at Jerusalem Hebrew University born in 1976, wrote a book that tells the process of Homo Sapiens dominating the Earth through the three revolutions – from Perception Revolution, Agricultural Revolution to Scientific Revolution – and asks, “How will mankind change in the future?” Contents such as the Perception Revolution, which allows you to create and deliver fiction that doesn’t exist to others, the Agricultural Revolution that grew and settled crops while living by hunting, and the Scientific Revolution that requires new learning of what you don’t know comes as easily as reading novels. Originally, humans started this revolution by delusion, but isn’t the Fourth Revolution, which further advances humanity, accomplished by quantum computers and AI? The completion of personal quantum computers is years away, but Google and Amazon have already started services that allow AI to be used on the web for years. Interested people should start studying right away. It’s the earliest time to think it’s late. It took 20 years to get here, but AI can be used by everyone around the world much faster and in an instant.

As such, in the field of AI, GB Soft (CEO Ki-bum Park) in Korea is making efficiency and achievements in companies and industries through video solutions based on industries. It is already building a solution using AI by managing visitors to the exhibition hall using biometric information at construction sites, supplying software for promotional marketing solutions at duty-free shops, and collecting and analyzing health care videos at industrial sites. Korean companies stand out for their accessibility and compatibility.

▲ GB Soft Co., Ltd.

▲ CEO : Ki-bum Park

▲ http://gb-soft.co.kr

▲ gbsoft@gb-soft.co.kr

▲ +82-53-716-4884

Sam Kim

Asia Journal

Infominning,  This  company specializing in artificial intelligence healthcare is on the verge of conducting business after reviewing the artificial intelligence platform business with Kyobo Life Insurance and Dongbu Life Insurance (Korea’s insurance company) in the field of healthcare. Currently, Korean insurance companies are trying to expand their work based on various artificial intelligence platforms as follows.

Insurance companies will be transformed into a “healthcare comprehensive financial platform.” A service that analyzes health status and recommends insurance using artificial intelligence (AI) will be possible. Open banking and My Payment services are also expected to open, allowing insurance companies’ apps to grow into super apps.

Ko Seung-beom, chairman of the Financial Services Commission, made the remarks at a meeting in the insurance industry at Lotte Hotel in Sogong-dong, Seoul on the 3rd. Lee Chan-woo, senior vice chairman of the Financial Supervisory Service, Min Byung-doo, head of the Korea Life Insurance Association, Chung Hee-soo, president of the General Insurance Association, Jeon Young-mook, president of Kyobo Life Insurance, Byun Jae-sang, president of Mirae Asset Life Insurance, and Cho Yong-il, president of Hyundai Marine Insurance.First of all, he said he would support insurance companies to grow into a “healthcare comprehensive financial platform.” Healthcare is the best area for insurers who have long-term relationships with customers and know their health conditions, Chairman Koh said. “Insurers will be able to serve as financial secretaries and health secretaries in their lives to find the optimal balance between financial and health assets.” Specifically, it said it would revise the “non-medical guidelines” to allow health status analysis and disease risk prediction services using AI and big data. Currently, it is a service that cannot be performed because it is not clear whether or not medical treatment is performed. He also said he would pay points according to the customer’s health care performance and allow insurance companies to pay prepaid electronic payments as well as sales so that customers can use points to purchase health products and pay insurance premiums.Furthermore, it announced that it will allow insurance companies’ apps to participate in open banking so that they can grow into one-app superapps. In December last year, the first open banking service began in the banking sector. It is a service that can process payment and remittance of customers’ financial accounts with one mobile app.Until now, insurance companies have not participated in open banking because unlike other financial products, there is no reception or payment function, and the need to inquire about contracted insurance products from time to time is low. To solve this problem, the Financial Services Commission has decided to open My Payment (payment instruction service business) to insurance companies. Insurance apps, not banks that have deposited money, will also be able to pay or remit directly.

He also stressed that regulations on “one company and one license,” which stipulate that only one non-life insurer and one life insurance company in one company, will be lifted so that the small short-term professional insurance industry specializing in pet insurance and travel insurance can be activated. However, Chairman Koh added a condition that “it should be sufficiently differentiated from existing business models by product, channel, and customer.” In addition, infectious disease insurance will be developed. Chairman Ko said, “Last month, the Korea Insurance Development Institute developed the first ‘infectious disease insurance’ risk assessment model, but I heard it is not easy to activate it. We will seek joint acquisition measures and consider ways to support insurance premiums.”The pension insurance activation task force team (TF) will also be formed to respond to changes in the demographic structure. It announced its plan to develop incremental pension insurance, which increases pension receipts as age increases, and improve the insurance Damoa system so that future expected pension receipts can be inquired for each pension product.It also revealed measures to reduce the possibility of incomplete sales. Chairman Koh said, “We will come up with measures to strengthen the sales responsibility of insurance agents to enhance the effectiveness of sanctions on GA, which violated the law,” adding, “We will focus on consumer protection such as product comparison obligations and commission systems.”

▲ INFOMINING CO., LTD

▲ CEO : Jae-yong Lee

▲ http://infomining.co.kr

▲ worldconsult@infomining.co.kr

▲ +82-70-4914-2970

Artificial intelligence (AI), a major component of the wave of technological innovation, showed rapid progress since the 2010s. Countries around the globe are sparing large efforts to foster AI industries. Endeavor of the South Korean government is also strong in order to become an AI technology powerhouse. Each local government is also devoted to fostering the AI industry, by supporting particularly small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) or startups.

AI Yangjae Hub was established by the Seoul Metropolitan Government in December 2017 as a special cluster for growing creative talents, innovative companies, and promoting exchanges. AI Yangjae Hub, as reflected in its name, specializes in cultivating and promoting the AI industry.

It is located in Yangjae R&D campus. Yangjae district is 10 minutes away from Gangnam and Yeoksam districts which are known for high concentration of wealth, finance and business, and 15-20 minutes away from Pangyo district which is emerging as a new IT techno valley. It is also surrounded by gorgeous green areas, including Yangjae citizens’ forest and Umyeon mountain. There are several research institutes nearby which are run by large conglomerates such as Samsung Electronics, LG Electronics, LG energy solution, and KT Corporation. It will be scaled up as a global cluster by attracting more domestic and foreign universities, research institutes and companies related to future information technology industries such as AI and big data.

In a conversation with Los Angeles Times Asia Journal, the director of AI Yangjae hub, Jong-yung Yoon, explained major programs and his vision. According to the director, as of June 2021, Approximately 88 SMEs (small and medium-sized enterprises) and start-ups are stationed in AI Yangjae Hub. The center leases cozy workspaces for them at low rents, which is also equipped with venues for open communication, collaborative spaces, meeting rooms, rest lounges and several office equipment and services. Actually, being offered a workspace on an affordable rent in Yangjae district is a quite big benefit for startups. Director Yoon explains that he thinks support for startups with weak financial status starts from securing stable and comfortable working conditions.

Getting a good night’s sleep is one of the most important things you can do for your health. The Center for Diseases Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends adults to get seven or more hours of sleep per night for the best health and wellbeing. Unfortunately, according to the CDC, nearly one-third of adult Americans say that they get insufficient sleep, and the CDC even went so far as to call the situation an epidemic. Not getting enough sleep can negatively impact your health, happiness, and longevity. Sleep deprivation has also been linked to the development and management of a number of chronic diseases and conditions, including type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, obesity, and depression, according to the CDC. What do you think you should do if you don’t want to lie staring at the ceiling everynight any longer?

Here is one Korean company that originated from the idea of improving the quality of sleep: LUPLE Inc. The company has researched ways to deal with sleep problems or people lacking light due to longer hours of staying indoors. Finally, it launched a smart gadget named ‘Olly’ for getting a good night’s rest as well as for better quality of life by using HCL (Human Centric Lighting) and artificial intelligence technology.

Olly offers a sunlight solution to make you sleep well and have an active day with biorhythm-friendly light and optimized application upon algorithm. It took the Innovation Award at the 2021 CES. The product is currently available on Amazon US and Shopee and scheduled to be available in Japan soon after July. LUPLE Inc. continues to develop more advanced products adapting cutting-edge technology for better-quality life.

Solution for Effective AI Modeling and Data Management Service: SmartMind Inc.

SmartMind Inc. in South Korea provides an artificial intelligence platform for integrated digital marketing and advertising, AI modeling and digital transformation for enterprises. The company developed various specialized AI algorithms.

The algorithm named ‘THANOS’ by the company provides an out-of-box tool for AI modeling and data management service for any vertical applications such as marketing, advertising, smart factory, game development, and pharmaceutical research. ‘THANOS’ drastically reduces the size of the raw data required for the AI modeling, maximizing the speed of repetitive modeling and deriving insight in real-time. When performing AI modelings with massive amounts of structured or unstructured data, it can accelerate machine learning (ML) training, which takes hours to hundreds of hours. It remarkably reduces time to market from data to insight, providing a source of competitive edge for enterprises.

‘LIGHTHOUSE’ is also a software as a service (SaaS) platform which provides AI transformation and data related services. Clients also have options to use vertical business applications such as marketing and digital ads solutions. According to the explanation of the company, many clients have already achieved cost savings and increased sales through the solution. With the latest edition of LIGHTHOUSE, you can experience the easy-to-use dashboards, providing integrated data visualization for digital advertising performance.

SmartMind Inc. will continuously add more patents related to AI and big data to secure further technological competencies and to provide the best experiences to clients.The company said that any talk with entrepreneurs who are seeking a performance boost via AI transformation would be welcome.

Decorate your home virtually using ‘Archisketch’: Archidraw Inc.

As the time spent indoors is increasing due to the pandemic, people are getting interested in interior-improvement. However, everyone must have experienced difficulties while decorating the interior or furnishing. You might have been a little hazy on whether the furniture you are looking at in the offline or online store would be well-matched with your house or office. You might also have experienced that furniture you chose and brought home might not have been as good as you thought.

Archidraw Inc. developed artificial intelligence (AI) technology which allows you to check styles of your own space through online experience. The core technology of Archidraw Inc. enables auto-conversion from 2D to 3D in order to build your own floor plan. Anyone can easily get photorealistic images drawn into 3D models through the web or an application. ‘Archisketch’ creates five different results with a single 3D model: Floor Planner, Panorama 3D, 4K rendering, 360 HD viewer, and AR viewer. You can build a house virtually and decorate it yourself to predict which wallpaper or furniture will go well with your house when using the cloud home-furnishing platform. You can freely place the furniture you want in a virtual space.

The company also designed an AI algorithm which helps you when choosing interior design with your picks. It will give you some recommendations for furniture arrangements. The products shown in the platform service are actually being sold in various brands, so you can even check the expected estimates. Not only interior experts but also anyone who is not confident in decorating their homes can experience more convenient home furnishing.

 

Kayla Hong

Asia Journal

HHS Co, Ltd (CEO: Hyeong-seob Han) developed a solution that identifies biorhythm with industry-specific devices and analyzes work environment health status based on artificial intelligence. The characteristics of each industry include the nature of the industry, working conditions, employment, occupational composition, training and advancement requirements, earnings, and the job outlook. These various industrial structures are composed, and if the condition can be checked, analyzed, and managed through data analysis through each biorhythm, it is clearly thought that the work efficiency and the near environment of health check can be improved.It will also be very efficient in rescue and replacement and useful in safety management in disasters as well. CEO Han is an expert in industrial engineering, developed a device that can detect biological signals developed by the industrial safety helmet by studying his expertise in detail, and completed a solution to build data based on artificial intelligence. It has been introduced to Korean and Japanese companies and is being asked for a lot of interest and investment. Although changing your body’s natural rhythms is not easy, changing its natural cycle will bring you a lot of benefits. It’s an important player in regulating appetite, fat storage, circadian rhythms and body temperature.

The 24-hour biological clock controls our sleep-wake cycle, digestion, body temperature, blood pressure and hormone production. It is believed that we can create a high-quality life and environment in many fields if we understand and utilize the biological rhythm well. As AI technology develops, growth of the wearable apparatus market is expected. As the artificial intelligence developed, the neural architecture search deserved in-depth study.

SAM KIM

Asia Journal

HHS

▲ HHS. Co., Ltd.

▲ CEO : Hyung-seob Han

▲ Brand : HHS, PINYFINY

▲ www.hhskorea.com

▲ overhs@naver.com

▲ +82-10-6733-5112

Wearing the traditional Korean dress of hanbok, Sophia participated in a panel at a forum hosted by the Artificial Intelligence Industry Association in downtown Seoul.

The human-like robot was developed by AI developer David Hanson of Hong Kong-based Hanson Robotics and has been made a full citizen of Saudi Arabia. This makes Sophia the first robot in the world to attain such a status.

(Yonhap)

“Hello,” the robot — made to resemble the famous actress Audrey Hepburn — said in the Korean language when she appeared at the forum.

The robot also made facial expressions while answering questions from Rep. Park Young-sun, who asked for opinions on the future of robotics and AI.

Sophia responded to Park’s jokes and said the hanbok was very fetching, in addition to mentioning various topics, such as issues currently facing South Korea.

(Yonhap)