Gaming firm NCSOFT wins S.Korea’s largest AI R&D competition
The Ministry of Science and ICT has been hosting the Artificial Intelligence Grand Challenge annually since 2019
By Nov 25, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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South Korean game developer NCSOFT Corp. announced on Friday that it won first place at this year’s Artificial Intelligence Grand Challenge, hosted by the Ministry of Science and ICT.
In the tournament, competitors duke it out by solving a set of problems using their own research findings. In total, 175 teams encompassing 935 people have taken part in the event since its launch in 2019.
The Vision AI Lab within NCSOFT’s AI Center competed in the event under the name VARCO.
This year’s challenge involved collecting data with drones in a natural disaster scenario.
Write to Jee Abbey Lee at jal@hankyung.com
Jee Abbey Lee edited this article.
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