UPSTAGE ATTENDS A MEETING HOSTED BY THE PERSONAL INFORMATION COMMISSION... PROPOSAL OF AI VITALIZATION POLICY AS A REPRESENTATIVE OF THE INDUSTRY
2023/3/16PERSONAL INFORMATION COMMITTEE CHAIRED BY KOH HAK-SOO TO LISTEN TO CORPORATE OPINIONS FOR REVITALIZATION OF AI AND DATA ECONOMY
One place for major big techs such as Naver, Kakao, and Coupang… Upstage, the only startup, presents policy proposals as a representative
JIYOON HAN, DATA TEAM LEADER OF UPSTAGE, SUGGESTS PERSONAL INFORMATION PROTECTION PLAN IN AI DATA LEARNING PROCESS
(Upstage = 2023/3/16) Representative domestic AI startup Upstage presented a policy proposal on behalf of an online platform company to promote reliable AI.
Upstage (CEO Seong-Hoon Kim, www.upstage.ai) attended the “Industry Conference for Revitalizing Trust-Based Data Economy” held at Naver’s new office hosted by the Personal Information Protection Commission (hereinafter referred to as “Personal Information Committee”) on the afternoon of the 16th to promote AI industry development. It was announced that it presented policy proposals as a representative and represented the voice of the industry.
With the revision of the Personal Information Protection Act, which passed the National Assembly on the 27th of last month and is scheduled to come into effect on September 15th, the Personal Information Commission is holding a relay meeting with companies that directly utilize data in the field, and this meeting is In the first order, it was conducted centering on online platform companies.
THE EVENT STARTED WITH AN OPENING SPEECH BY KOH HAK-SOO, CHAIRMAN OF THE PERSONAL INFORMATION COMMITTEE, FOLLOWED BY HAN JI-YOON, THE LEADER OF THE UPSTAGE DATA TEAM, WHO MADE POLICY SUGGESTIONS ON “AI DEVELOPMENT AND PERSONAL INFORMATION PROTECTION.” FOLLOWING THIS, THE PERSONAL INFORMATION COMMISSION PROCEEDED IN THE ORDER OF △THE CONTENTS OF THE LAW REVISION AND THE DIRECTION OF THE REVISION OF SUB-STATUTES △ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE POLICY PROMOTION DIRECTION TO REVITALIZE THE DATA ECONOMY.
Chairman Koh Hak-soo, directors of the Personal Information Commission, and managers in charge participated, and 16 online platforms, including the Korea Internet Business Association and the Korea Online Shopping Association, were present. While major big tech companies such as Naver, Kakao, and Coupang gathered to discuss ways to revitalize the data economy, Upstage drew attention as the only startup to participate.
IN PARTICULAR, UPSTAGE LEADER JI-YOON HAN, WHO WAS THE ONLY ONE OF THE PARTICIPATING COMPANIES TO PRESENT AS A REPRESENTATIVE SPEAKER FROM THE INDUSTRY, POINTED OUT THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE GENERATIVE AI MODEL TRIGGERED BY CHATGPT AND SUGGESTED THE DIRECTION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION PROTECTION MEASURES REQUIRED IN THE RAPIDLY CHANGING DIGITAL ENVIRONMENT. DID. IN PARTICULAR, AS THERE ARE CONCERNS ABOUT INFRINGEMENT OF UNSPECIFIED PERSONAL INFORMATION IN THE PROCESS OF BUILDING AI MODELS AND LEARNING UNSTRUCTURED DATA IN THE CLOUD ENVIRONMENT, PREVENTIVE MEASURES WERE ORDERED TO ENSURE THE RELIABILITY OF AI UTILIZATION BY PREVENTING EXPOSURE OF SENSITIVE INFORMATION.
JIYOON HAN, LEADER OF UPSTAGE, SAID, “WITH THE CHATGPT AS AN OPPORTUNITY, THE GENERATIVE AI MARKET CONTINUES TO BOOM, AND THE CLOUD COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT BASED ON AI MODELS AND PROTECTION MEASURES AGAINST SENSITIVE INFORMATION THAT CAN BE LEAKED FROM LARGE-SCALE DATA LEARNING ARE REQUIRED.” , "UPSTAGE WILL CONTINUE TO THINK ABOUT WAYS TO BUILD RELIABLE AI DATA BASED ON DATA TECHNOLOGY RECOGNIZED BY WORLD SOCIETIES."
ON THE OTHER HAND, UPSTAGE IS PROVIDING 'UPSTAGE AI PACK', A NO-CODE-LOW-CODE SOLUTION THAT HELPS CUSTOMERS TO USE AI TECHNOLOGIES SUCH AS RECOMMENDATION TECHNOLOGY AS WELL AS OCR TECHNOLOGY THAT CAN EXTRACT AND USE DESIRED INFORMATION FROM IMAGES AT ONCE. LAUNCHED, HELPING CUSTOMERS INNOVATE AI. WITH THE AI PACK, YOU CAN EASILY UTILIZE DATA PROCESSING, AI MODELING, AND INDEX MANAGEMENT, AS WELL AS SUPPORT CONTINUOUS UPDATES, SO YOU CAN CONVENIENTLY USE THE LATEST AI TECHNOLOGY AT ALL TIMES.
In addition, Upstage recently launched 'AskUp', which adds Upstage's OCR technology and ChatGPT to KakaoTalk, the national mobile messenger. AskUp is 'Eyeless ChatGPT', which combines Upstage's OCR technology based on the artificial intelligence chatbot 'ChatGPT'. When a user takes a picture of a document or sends it, it can understand the text in the image and respond.
* DATA PHOTO: UPSTAGE DATA TEAM LEADER HAN JI-YOON PRESENTS POLICY PROPOSALS FOR AI DEVELOPMENT AND INFORMATION PROTECTION AT AN INDUSTRY CONFERENCE HOSTED BY THE PERSONAL INFORMATION COMMISSION ON THE 16TH.
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Upstage, founded in October 2020, offers a no-code/low-code solution called "Upstage AI Pack" to help clients innovate in AI. This solution applies the latest AI technologies to various industries in a customized manner. Upstage AI Pack includes OCR technology that extracts desired information from images, recommendation technology that considers customer information and product/service features, and natural language processing search technology that enables meaning-based search. By using the Upstage AI Pack, companies can easily utilize data processing, AI modeling, and metric management. They can also receive support for continuous updates, allowing them to use the latest AI technologies conveniently. Additionally, Upstage offers practical, AI-experienced training and a strong foundation in AI through an education content business. This helps cultivate differentiated professionals who can immediately contribute to AI business.
Led by top talents from global tech giants like Google, Apple, Amazon, Nvidia, Meta, and Naver, Upstage has established itself as a unique AI technology leader. The company has presented excellent papers at world-renowned AI conferences, such as NeurIPS, ICLR, CVPR, ECCV, WWW, CHI, and WSDM. In addition, Upstage is the only Korean company to have won double-digit gold medals in Kaggle competitions. CEO Sung Kim, an associate professor at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, is a world-class AI guru who has received the ACM Sigsoft Distinguished Paper Award four times for his research on bug prediction and automatic source code generation. He is also well-known as a lecturer for "Deep Learning for Everyone," which has recorded over 7 million views on YouTube. Co-founders include CTO Hwal-suk Lee, who led Naver's Visual AI/OCR and achieved global success, and CSO Eun-jeong Park, who led the modelling of the world's best translation tool, Papago.
