`Next content conference 2017`

[Digital Times, Kim Soo-yeon] There is a growing concern in the era of the 4th industrial revolution that AI will take up human jobs as AI spreads throughout the industry. The prospects that the problem will be resolved are highlighted.

The Korea Foundation for the Advancement of Science and Technology (KOCC) predicted world scholars who made a keynote speech at the `Next Contents Conference 2017` held at COEX, Seoul, Korea on October 23 to view the next generation contents industry.

In a keynote address titled ‘Expansion into the Future, Maximizing the Value of the Future,’ Jeff Malgan, president of Nesta, who has been carrying out a project to integrate cultural contents and AI and providing content policy ideas to the European Union, In the AI era, creative jobs are expected to increase.

"It is now 30 million UK jobs, 30 million creative jobs, including designers and content developers, which account for 10 percent of all jobs," said Mulligan, Nesta`s 2015 report, Creativity vs. Robot. It is expected that 90% of these creative jobs will not be automated in 10-15 years. " "Creative jobs are hard to automate," he said. Creative jobs are an analysis that human beings can maintain competitive advantage over AI, as the basis of machine learning is the job of creating creative goods and services based on human creativity, not algorithms.

Especially, he cited education, health, food, hotel, and sports as areas where jobs would increase significantly in the United States and the United Kingdom in the future. In these areas, consumer demand will be so diverse that it cannot be automated.

Professor Lev Mannovich, a professor at New York University, who gave a keynote speech on the theme of `Changing media environment and new platform`, said, "In the AI era, the field in which humans still have a competitive advantage is to create creative contents such as cultural products. So, what is going to become more important in the future is how to educate creators."

It is necessary to change the curriculum of universities and other educational institutions so that they can use them for creative activities since creators are dominated by AI technology. "Creators now have to provide education that combines design, filmmaking, and fashion with their major fields and computer science to make the best use of AI," he also mentioned. "It is important to combine human creativity with AI."

On the other hand, the conference was held on October 23 and 24, and 1,500 people registered. The lobby of the event attracted attention by displaying the contents of eight companies that have made remarkable achievements in R & D projects supported by KISA, such as VR games.


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