Jeju to Test AI Technologies and Services First, Pushes Ahead With “AX Pilot City”
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Jeju Special Self-Governing Province said it has begun building an “AX pilot city” and will verify AI technologies and services first in local industry, administration, and everyday life.
At the “Jeju AX Great Transformation Vision Declaration Ceremony,” Jeju announced strategies to strengthen industrial competitiveness and innovate residents’ daily lives, along with plans for AI infrastructure, AX for residents, AX for administration, AX for industry, and global AX.
It also proposed an eco-friendly AI data center based on renewable energy, AI applications in energy, aerospace, biotech, agriculture, livestock and fisheries, and tourism, expanded resident-tailored administrative and welfare services and AI education, and requests for government support and designation as a demonstration region.
Jeju Special Self-Governing Province has begun building an “AX pilot city.” The goal is to apply and verify AI technologies and services first in local industry, administration, and everyday life.
Jeju formalized the plan by holding the “Jeju AX Great Transformation Vision Declaration Ceremony” at Kakao Space Dot One in Jeju City on the 11th. About 150 people attended, including Jeju Special Self-Governing Province Governor Oh Young-hun, National AI Strategy Committee Standing Vice Chair Ha Jung-woo, Song Hye-ja, chair of the committee’s regional special committee, and government and corporate officials, along with local residents.
Jeju announced strategies to strengthen industrial competitiveness based on AX and to innovate residents’ daily lives. Its main directions include AX for core industries, AI talent development, a transition to a climate economy, and the spread of AI tailored to everyday life.
As strategies to carry this out, Jeju also unveiled AI infrastructure, AX for residents, AX for administration, AX for industry, and global AX.
The industrial plan includes building an eco-friendly AI data center based on renewable energy and applying AI to energy, aerospace, biotech, agriculture, livestock and fisheries, and tourism. The concept is to first demonstrate the model in Jeju and then spread it to other regions after confirming results.
The energy strategy focuses on linking local renewable energy resources such as wind and solar power with AI. AI will be used to forecast generation and electricity demand, and the connected assets will include data centers, energy storage systems (ESS), electric vehicles, buildings, and other distributed resources. The goal is to improve energy operating efficiency.
In a special lecture proposal, Vice Chair Ha Jung-woo suggested linking renewable energy, AI data centers (AIDC), ESS, electric vehicles, and buildings. He also proposed operating Jeju itself as a single large-scale energy-storage-type system. He additionally introduced a plan to use AI, intelligent CCTV, and drones in tourist sites, oreums, Olle trails, airports, ports, and roads, with the aim of detecting and responding to risks early.
Jeju said it plans to build a system that provides residents with tailored administrative and welfare services in advance using AI and data in the administrative and daily life sectors, while also expanding opportunities for AI education. It set a goal of enabling anyone to learn and use AI regardless of age, income, or place of residence, and said it will also work on cultivating AI talent. It added that it will establish a talent-development system involving local universities, research institutions, public organizations, and companies.
Jeju said it plans to link this talent-development system to helping young people settle in the region and to attracting companies. In effect, it presented an AX implementation plan that spans administrative and welfare services, education, and talent development.
Officials from the National AI Strategy Committee visited the Jeju AX sites before the vision declaration ceremony. They took a ride in the Tamna autonomous car, visited the Bukchon battery energy storage system (BESS) power plant and a Jeju-style smart farm for pig farming AX, and checked the demonstration status in the autonomous driving, distributed energy, and livestock sectors.
Jeju requested government support to improve the execution of its AX strategy. Governor Oh proposed to Vice Chair Ha the creation of a “Global AI Hub Jeju,” the drafting of a comprehensive plan for an alliance campus between the four science and technology institutes and Jeju, and the priority allocation of national graphics processing unit (GPU) infrastructure to Jeju.
For the Jeju-region AX Great Transformation project, a proposal was made to exempt it from the preliminary feasibility study, and another proposal called for designating Jeju as an “AI government full-cycle demonstration region.” The core of the proposal is to build a regional demonstration system in Jeju that links AI technology development with application and verification in public and industrial settings, so development, application, and verification do not get interrupted and the demonstration base is concentrated in one region.
Governor Oh Young-hun of Jeju Special Self-Governing Province stressed the need to secure the future initiative of a leading region in the AI transformation, saying now is Jeju’s golden time for a leap forward. He added that Jeju will push to spread the AI innovation model verified on the island nationwide, thereby strengthening the Republic of Korea’s competitiveness, and said he is determined to turn Jeju’s pending issues into issues for the entire country.
Source: TECHWORLD · Kim Seung-gi
Original: https://www.epnc.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=406861
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