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Generative AI is innovative tool to solve problems facing humanity: Samsung CEO
Kyung Kye-hyun, CEO of Samsung Electronics’ Device Solutions Division, speaks online during the Samsung AI Forum at the Suwon Convention Center in Gyeonggi Province, Tuesday. Courtesy of Samsung Electronics
By Baek Byung-yeul
Generative AI is emerging as an innovative tool that can help solve various problems facing humanity, and through in-depth research, it has the potential to create a better future, said Samsung Electronics’ chip CEO, Tuesday.
“As generative AI technology is emerging rapidly as a means to address the diverse challenges humanity faces, there is a growing demand for deeper research on the safety, trustworthiness and sustainability of this technology," CEO Kyung Kye-hyun said during the opening ceremony for the seventh Samsung AI Forum.
The forum serves as a platform for scholars, experts and students in the fields of AI and computer engineering to gather, share the latest research trends and explore future innovation strategies.
The Samsung CEO added, “I hope that this forum, in bringing together top experts from academia and industry, will be a meaningful place to discuss how to create a better future for humanity through AI and semiconductor technology.”
With the participation of over 1,000 experts and students, the event focused on discussing the achievements and future directions of hyperscale AI and next-generation semiconductor research to realize these advancements.
Yoshua Bengio, an expert in deep learning technology and professor at the University of Montreal, shared his latest research in a keynote presentation titled, “Towards a Safe AI Scientist System.”
The AI guru introduced a safe AI machine learning algorithm that can prevent large language models (LLMs) from developing in directions not intended by developers.
Jim Keller, CEO of Canada-based AI semiconductor company Tenstorrent, delivers a speech during the Samsung AI Forum at the Suwon Convention Center in Gyeonggi Province, Tuesday. Courtesy of Samsung Electronics
Jim Keller, CEO of Canada-based AI semiconductor company Tenstorrent, presented how next-generation semiconductor design innovations can help overcome the limitations of AI technology.
The CEO emphasized new possibilities for next-generation AI through hardware architecture innovation based on RISC-V, an open-source hardware design. Recently, RISC-V has been emerging as a potential alternative to Arm, a British chip design company, as anyone can access and use it for free in open-source form.
The forum featured lectures by world-renowned scholars and experts as well as research leaders from Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT).
The SAIT researchers discussed their AI technology utilization plans, including LLM, and provided insights into future changes in semiconductors across various AI applications. In the computer engineering field, they also discussed the use of virtual environments in simulating manufacturing processes using AI.