Former KT CEO Koo Hyun-mo: "Apply AI Quickly Starting with Easy Tasks"
Koo Hyun-mo: "AI must be expanded to high value-added areas beyond process efficiency"
Baek Eun-ok: "Active use of small language models and in-house expert training are key"
Industry, government, and academia urged to collaborate for Korea's AI competitiveness
Former KT CEO Koo Hyun-mo emphasized on the 31st that "the application of artificial intelligence (AI) should expand beyond the perspective of process efficiency to high value-added areas such as design, customer care, and research and development, and it is important to apply it quickly starting with the easy tasks."
Former CEO Koo made these remarks during the keynote speech at the 278th NAEK Forum hosted by the National Academy of Engineering of Korea (NAEK) at EL Tower in Seocho-gu, Seoul, under the theme "The DeepSeek Shock, the Future Direction of Korea's Industrial AI," after introducing the case of China, which has advanced as an AI powerhouse.
Professor Baek Eun-ok of Hanyang University’s Department of Computer Software (Vice President of NAEK) advised that to enable industrial AI, active utilization of small language models (sLLM) and fostering in-house experts through education are necessary.
The panel discussion included Yoon Sung-ho, CEO of Machinarx; Lim Woo-hyung, Executive Director of LG AI Research Institute; Kang Nam-woo, Professor at KAIST’s Cho Chun-shik Graduate School of Mobility; and Kang Gam-chan, Director of Industrial Policy at the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy.
Yoon Jae-yong, Chairman of the NAEK Forum Steering Committee, stated, "Industrial AI is a core technology that determines national competitiveness, and companies, government, and academia must collaborate to proactively foster Korea’s AI industry."
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The NAEK Forum of the National Academy of Engineering of Korea is a representative policy discussion forum that has been held since 1998, convening six times a year (on the last Monday of odd-numbered months).
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