Pohang Mayor Lee Gang-deok, "Actively Utilizing Generative AI Technology to Enhance Work Efficiency"

AI Training for About 500 Pohang City Employees from 14th to 18th

Mayor Lee: "Revolutionary Administrative Innovation Including Discovering AI-Based Administrative Services"

Lee Gang-deok, Mayor of Pohang, has actively emphasized the need to enhance work efficiency by actively utilizing generative artificial intelligence (AI) technology.

Mayor Lee Gang-deok of Pohang attended the "Generative AI Education" held at the Culture and Arts Factory on the 16th.

On the 16th, Mayor Lee attended the ‘Generative AI Training’ held at the Culture and Arts Factory, where he received explanations on creating images for reports and automatically drafting work documents necessary for administrative tasks.

This training, conducted by AI instructor Lee Jeong-hoon from Handong University, is held twice daily from the 14th to the 18th, allowing about 500 Pohang city employees to attend lectures on ‘Multimedia (AI)’ and ‘Document Writing (AI)’ and receive consulting related to AI projects.

Mayor Lee continues efforts to leap forward as an intelligent local government leading the future AI era by ordering the active use of generative AI technology in next year’s departmental work reports and other administrative demands to optimally handle various administrative needs in the shortest time.

In this training course, time was also provided to directly apply generative AI technology to practical tasks such as writing press releases and work reports, enhancing public officials’ understanding of the changes AI will bring.

Mayor Lee Gang-deok said, “It was a valuable time to understand the changes that AI technology will bring and to contemplate the roles of public officials,” adding, “I hope public officials will further strengthen their capabilities to discover administrative services utilizing AI technology and use it to radically innovate the administrative field.”

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