The President’s Office announced that President Yoon Seok-yeol presided over the ‘National Artificial Intelligence Committee Launch Ceremony and 1st Meeting’ on the 4 Seasons Hotel in Seoul on the twenty sixth.
The Inil event, held on the place where ninth dan Lee Sedol and ‘Alpha Go’ played a baduk match eight years ago, was prepared to announce the ‘launch of the National Artificial Intelligence Committee’. This is a corporation directly under the President, chaired by the President, and 30 civilian members consisting of experts in the sector of artificial intelligence (AI) and 10 ministerial level government members from major ministries participate.
In his opening remarks, President Yoon emphasized his vision of becoming one in all the highest three AI powers and has been promoting the AI-semiconductor initiative since last April to dominate the longer term AI semiconductor market. Because of this of the Korea-US summit, the ‘Korea-US AI Working Group’ was established. ‘ and announced that it has also opened the ‘Global AI Frontier Lab’, where Korea and the USA jointly research and develop AI.
He identified various unintended effects attributable to the digital divide, including cases of human rights violations abusing deepfake technology, which has recently turn out to be a difficulty.
As well as, they announced that they might construct a ‘National AI Computing Center’ through public-private three way partnership and lead the expansion of personal investment within the AI field.
At the primary meeting of the committee, discussions took place on the next topics: ▲supporting expansion of AI investment within the private sector ▲securing AI infrastructure and talent ▲comprehensive national AX ▲promoting AI safety and security ▲resolving data copyright and private information issues.
Here, 2 trillion won will probably be invested to construct a national AI computing center to secure 2 exaflops (EF), 15 times the dimensions of the present GPU, and a basic AI law specializing in stopping deep fakes and pretend news will probably be promoted inside this 12 months. It is thought that measures corresponding to this were discussed.
It’s also reported that the federal government will largely reflect the industry’s position on copyright issues and private information protection issues related to AI learning data.
Reporter Lim Da-jun ydj@aitimes.com
