Samsung SDS Wins First Place in Domestic and International AI Competitions

[Asia Economy Reporter Buaeri] Samsung SDS has secured first place in an artificial intelligence (AI) reading comprehension competition.

On the 22nd, according to Samsung SDS, their AI natural language understanding learning model ranked first in the English-based 'HotpotQA' and the Korean language tests 'KorQuAD 1.0' and 'KorQuAD 2.0' AI reading comprehension competitions.

'HotpotQA' is a global AI reading comprehension competition based on datasets created by Carnegie Mellon, Stanford, and the University of Montreal.

KorQuAD 1.0 is a test where AI reads limited content to find accurate answers to given questions. KorQuAD 2.0 requires finding answers from the entire Korean Wikipedia, demanding long-form responses based on a high level of sentence understanding. Samsung SDS recorded a score surpassing human-level for the first time among KorQuAD 2.0 participating teams.

Additionally, Samsung SDS achieved the acceptance of 11 papers at world-renowned AI conferences such as the Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV), and the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI).

Notably, in September, a paper on reinforcement learning techniques for optimizing product design, manufacturing, and logistics processes was accepted at 'NeurIPS 2020,' one of the most prestigious AI conferences.

Samsung SDS is also focusing on securing top-tier AI talent. Recently, they recruited an AI multimodal (voice, text, video, image) expert from the MIT Lincoln Laboratory in the US and a computer vision expert from Google as executive officers.

Samsung SDS's capabilities are widely applied across manufacturing, distribution, finance, and healthcare sectors.

On the 12th of next month, Samsung SDS will hold the 3rd Developer Conference 'Techtonic 2020.'

Lee Sang-wook, head of Samsung SDS Research Institute, stated, "We will advance AI technology research and continuously secure diverse talent to actively support our customers' digital transformation."

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