[Opinion] "We Must Create a Spatial Information Ecosystem with AI"

Kim Young-wook, Head of Gwangju Jeonnam Regional Headquarters, LX Korea Land and Geospatial Informatix Corporation

The world is now focusing on new artificial intelligence (AI) services. On the 1st, Open AI, the world's largest AI research foundation based in the United States, unveiled 'ChatGPT,' a type of conversational AI service (chatbot).

'ChatGPT' is a service released by Open AI, which was established with investments from Tesla CEO Elon Musk and other well-known entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley. Although it was a free prototype uploaded on the company's website before the official product launch, it attracted over one million users within just one week.

'ChatGPT' can speculate on medical diagnoses, create text-based Harry Potter games, answer programmers' coding difficulties, and even develop actual programs.

It can even write heartwarming poems and university-level essays.

Because it is a powerful AI chatbot made available to everyone for free, many ordinary users who tried it firsthand shared various cases, making it a hot topic.

Besides ChatGPT, AI is deeply integrated into our daily lives through smartphones, autonomous vehicles, search algorithms, and more, leading a new lifestyle.

As a result, companies that understand and utilize AI will gradually gain competitiveness and lead the market, while those that do not will be marginalized.

LX Korea Land and Geospatial Informatix Corporation also recognizes the importance of AI technology and has established and operates the 'AI and Big Data Analysis Center,' conducting various research projects.

Specifically, in the cadastral surveying results determination process, they are developing algorithms that support result determination by analyzing approximately 400,000 accumulated surveying big data annually and patterns by region and result type using AI.

In the spatial information field, projects are underway to automatically detect various illegal activities within development-restricted areas using high-resolution drone images and to detect objects such as manholes and communication ducts to analyze and improve the positional accuracy of underground facilities.

At this time, the quality of data is crucial.

To lead businesses related to artificial intelligence (AI), data?often called the "crude oil of the AI industry"?is key.

Among these, well-refined 'training data' is essential to create the targeted AI models.

Therefore, it is necessary for the government and public institutions to build high-quality data for public interest purposes and create an environment where it can be freely shared.

Accordingly, LX Corporation has successfully established the LX Platform this year, which systematically manages 437 administrative, public, and private data items across 13 fields that were previously managed separately, as well as three-dimensional spatial information data from ground, underground, and aerial sources, and real-time dynamic data from IoT sensors within a digital twin.

Through the LX Platform, various spatial information is being integrated and operated, and data will continue to be collected and shared to protect the safety and property rights of the public.

Systematic data construction, quality, and standard management are the keys to creating and developing the AI industry ecosystem.

The quality of artificial intelligence (AI) is determined by the quality of training data.

In this regard, LX Corporation focuses on public interest goals by building standardized and accurate location-based spatial information data and sharing it with small and medium-sized enterprises and startups.

If public institutions strive to build information infrastructure, the problem of the private sector having difficulty obtaining training data directly will be resolved, enabling more accessible and proactive development of innovative AI service models.

Through an expanded industrial ecosystem, it is expected that all citizens will benefit from spatial information services utilizing AI in daily life, creating a virtuous cycle.

To achieve this, it is essential to specify LX Corporation’s scope of work and establish legal and institutional grounds for securing funding.

With the enactment of the Korea Land and Geospatial Informatix Corporation Act, we are confident that sharing high-quality data to create a spatial information ecosystem will strengthen our country's industrial competitiveness in the AI era.

This content was produced with the assistance of AI translation services.