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SK Telecom, OpenAI discover AI services for humanity
SK Telecom CEO Ryu Young-sang speaks during the Prompter Day Seoul 2023 event, co-held by OpenAI, at Dream Plus Gangnam, Seoul, in this photo provided by the company, Monday. Courtesy of SK Telecom
By Baek Byung-yeul
SK Telecom successfully concluded Prompter Day Seoul 2023, a global AI hackathon event jointly held with U.S. AI company OpenAI, to discover teams developing AI services for the benefit of humanity, the company said Monday.
Hackathon, a combination of hacking and marathon, is a contest in which participants develop thematic services in a limited time.
The Prompter Day Seoul 2023, co-hosted by the two companies, was held on Saturday and Sunday in Seoul with the theme of developing AI services that can benefit humanity.
Winners and participants of the Prompter Day Seoul 2023 event pose during an award ceremony held at Dream Plus Gangnam, Seoul, in this photo provided by the company, Monday. Courtesy of SK Telecom
A total of 226 teams submitted ideas based on OpenAI's generative AI model and 20 teams among them took part in the event held on Saturday and Sunday.
The grand prize was won by a team that developed a service simplifying complex sentences for users with low literacy skills such as autism.
SK Telecom said it plans to develop and commercialize the best ideas discovered at the competition along with OpenAI.
“We are pleased to have successfully completed the event for AI professionals around the world to contest their ideas with OpenAI,” Chung Suk-geun, chief AI global officer at SK Telecom, said. “We will continue to pursue innovation in the global AI ecosystem with human-centered AI technology.”