The government will develop artificial intelligence (AI) technology that will strengthen the competitiveness of the home shipbuilding and marine industries with HD Hyundai and academia. In order to rework AI in shipbuilding and maritime, one among Korea’s main industries, laws are relaxed and industry-specific AI will be created.
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Science and ICT Bae Kyounghun met with HD Hyundai Chairman Chung Ki-sun and others at the HD Hyundai Global R&D Center on the twentieth and promised such cooperation. The Ministry of Science and ICT and the Ministry of Trade and Industry signed a enterprise settlement with 5 organizations, together with Ulsan Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), HD Korea Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering, HD Hyundai Heavy Industries, HD Hyundai Robotics and Ulsan University.
The government, firms, and academia joined arms as a result of they imagine that AI transition is urgently wanted to strengthen the competitiveness of the home shipbuilding and marine industries. An official from the Ministry of Science and ICT defined, “It is designed to take a leap forward by applying AI to the Korean shipbuilding and maritime industries with international competitiveness and to speed up the transition of AI by gathering industry-academia capabilities.”
In the future, the 5 organizations plan to collectively develop AI basis fashions specialised in the shipbuilding and marine industries, construct an industrial knowledge ecosystem, domesticate skilled manpower, and promote regional industrial ecosystems.
The Ministry of Science and ICT is planning to enhance the system to assist this. The plan is to seek out unreasonable laws in the knowledge assortment course of at shipbuilding and marine industries, apply regulatory sandboxes, and assist knowledge pipeline building so that knowledge will be related to bodily AI building.
Deputy Prime Minister Bae emphasised, “For the domestic shipbuilding and marine industries, which are currently experiencing both crises and opportunities, this agreement will not only serve as an important foothold for overcoming crises and taking opportunities, but will also promote AI transformation in the shipbuilding and marine industries.”
“The competitiveness of future shipbuilding sites will depend on the use of AI technology,” stated HD Hyundai Chairman Chung Ki-sun. “We expect this industry-academic technology alliance to be a momentum to accelerate the construction of HD Hyundai’s AI technology ecosystem.”
[Reporter Jeong Hojun]