Korea Telecom’s (KT) artificial intelligence (AI) serving robot delivers food to customers during a demonstration event at Mad for Garlic restaurant in Seoul, South Korea (not pictured). Photo provided by: JEON HEON-KYUN/EPA
March 22 (Asia Today) — KT announced on Sunday that it has published 148 artificial intelligence research papers in the past five years as it ramps up efforts to apply research to commercial services.
The company said 49 of these papers were accepted at major global conferences, including the Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, and the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems.
KT has established joint research centers with major universities such as Seoul National University, KAIST, and Korea University to combine academic expertise with unique technology and business experience. We are also collaborating with Microsoft Research to strengthen our global research capabilities.
The company said it has built a framework that integrates research planning, validation, and commercialization, with the aim of directly applying research results to services and business operations.
Since last year, KT has expanded its research to include agent AI, vertical AI, responsible AI, and physical AI. The company said its multimodal and agentic AI technology has already been applied to commercial services such as its Mi:um K platform and agentic fabric-based systems.
KT held a joint workshop with researchers from Seoul National University and KAIST on Wednesday at the Umyeon Research Center in southern Seoul to review ongoing projects and discuss future research directions and business applications.
Oh Seung-pil, head of KT’s technology innovation department, said the company will continue to strengthen its AI capabilities by linking research and product development.
“We will continue to proactively secure next-generation AI technologies through a roadmap that closely links research and products, and strengthen the competitiveness of AI in real industrial environments,” Oh said.
— Asia Today reported. Translation by UPI
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