In April the company
signed a «strategic cooperation agreement,» Rhee said, with the municipal government
of Kunming City in the southwestern province
of Yunnan, which will aid the company in robot building and
developing artificial
intelligence capabilities in Yunnan province for the purpose
of making Kunming and other municipalities A.I. - enabled «smart» cities.
Last month, a group
of over 50 AI scientists, including those from UC Berkeley and the Max Planck Institute,
signed an open letter to the Korea Advanced Institute
of Science and Technology (KAIST), announcing a boycott against the university due to its recent partnership with South Korea's largest defense company, Hanwha System, to open a Research Center for the Convergence
of National Defense and Artificial
Intelligence, which will aim to «develop artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to be applied to military weapons, joining the global competition to develop autonomous
Intelligence, which will aim to «
develop artificial
intelligence (AI) technologies to be applied to military weapons, joining the global competition to develop autonomous
intelligence (AI) technologies to be applied to military weapons, joining the global competition to
develop autonomous arms.»