[Open Radio] What are the AI trends and how to use them in 2025?

[Open Radio YTN]

■ Broadcast: YTN Radio FM 94.5 (20:20-21:00)
■ Air date: December 28, 2024 (Saturday)
■ Host: announcer Choi Hwi
■ Talk: Kim Deok-jin, Director of IT Communication Research

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◇ Announcer Choi Hwi (hereinafter referred to as Choi Hwi): Today's new media trend is in the IT field. Kim Deok-jin, head of the IT Communication Research Institute, is on the phone. You're here, right?

◆ Kim Deok-jin, Director of IT Communication Research (hereinafter referred to as Kim Deok-jin): Yes, hello. Nice to meet you. I'm Kim Deok-jin.

◇ Choi Hwi: Yes, hello. The director released a hot new book titled <AI 2025 Trend & Utilization Encyclopedia>. Like the title of the book, if I summarize the AI trends of 2025 in one word, how can I organize them?

◆ Kim Deok-jin: I think I can tell you one big topic and one subtitle. The topic is the starting point for AI to evolve into a universal technology that changes the world. I think I can tell you that. It is an era in which dos is changed to windows if we express it a little more like us. I want to say this.

◇ Choi Hwi: As you know, it's confusing.

◆ Kim Deok-jin: Has our announcer used dos before?

◇ Choi Hwi: I don't know exactly what it is.

◆ Kim Deok-jin: In the past. There was a time when we had to go to a computer academy when we said we were using a computer. Because I had to know that it was a command to use a computer. So, for example, on a black screen, there was a time when I wrote, "dir/w: cd." There was a screen called Dos. At that time, there was a time when we used complex commands and learned how to do computers. It came out in 1995 that Windows, which we all know, is Windows 95, which many people know.

◇ [CHOI] That's right. I'm used to Windows.

◆ [Kim Deok-jin] Yes, that's right. But after that, when we use a computer, we don't have to learn how to use it, but if we say we're on the Internet, we can press it with a mouse, and then the screen comes out. For example, if we do PowerPoint, we click one by one. We don't have to make it one by one like programmers. But until last year, when we used ChatGPT or AI, it was like dos before. So in order for us to write properly, we need to know various commands and complex technologies such as programming, but now the time has come when we just have to press AI and try it. So as if we don't know complicated commands but we can use computers, now ChatGPT has eyes and ears. So if we just turn on the camera and talk, we can use it, and if I say something I'm curious about, they answer. Even without using complicated commands, this era has opened where you can work with PowerPoint instead of me with a few clicks on the menu. So we're no longer learning AI in a complicated way, but we're like, 'Oh, there's something like this. ’ It's an era where you can press it and use it. As a result, I think I can tell you that AI has actually changed the world a little more and that the starting point has come to start with general-purpose technology.

◇ Choi Hwi: Just as it transformed from dos to windows, AI is now easy and easy to use. That's what they said. Actually, it's still difficult. I don't understand. ’ There are a lot of people who do that. When I see acquaintances who are good at AI, I think, 'Am I the only one who is behind?' ’ I sometimes feel like this, but what would be the reason why we need to know more about AI?

◆ Kim Deok-jin: So in a way, I think it would be good to think about two things. I told you earlier that it's a general-purpose technology. What this means is that AI is now a general-purpose technology from the point of view that people are really starting to permeate every field. What we know is that the Nobel Prize we talked about this year, and Koreans say, "The Nobel Prize has finally come out in Korea," while watching Han Kang's award. In fact, there was something quite surprising about AI at the Nobel Prize. The AI field won two Nobel Prizes this time. I won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry and the Nobel Prize in Physics. To be precise, the AI that won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry was not exactly ridden by a chemical researcher. I won the chemistry prize from the DeepMind team that made the AlphaGo we know. And the same is true of the physics prize. Rather than specializing in physics, those who studied AI in general won the Nobel Prize in physics because of AI. So, AI has become a field that is used universally along with a certain professional field, so it is now being used not only for chemistry but also for AI-based chemistry application. From our point of view, it could have been an era where we need to know AI in order to know the changes in the world. One of the things that bothered people a lot in this year's CSAT language problem, without going further, was that there were some very complex problems related to the principle of this AI. In a way, I thought we should know a little because AI is becoming a mandatory liberal arts subject for the whole nation. And as the announcer said earlier, "I use AI so well around me, but I'm worried that I'm too behind." In 2025, we can worry less about that. If you look at the AI pouring in at the end of this year, it's like when apps are pouring in at the beginning of the app store. You can think of it as similar to then. If you think about it, we learned how to use KakaoTalk at first, right? So, we read and looked up "How to use Talk Talk".

◇ [CHOI] Yes, that's right.

◆ Kim Deok-jin: But now we use KakaoTalk, but we don't learn and use it all. That's why we've gotten used to and used to it, but as we use these apps, it's becoming easier, easier, and standardized, and you can say that those changes have begun. That's why we haven't used it, but hundreds of AI apps are still pouring in more than we thought. When I use it, I'm like, "Is this AI?" There are also apps that say, "I didn't know it was AI, but it just works." That's why I think it's an important era to try and experience various apps. That's why I wrote a book from that perspective. What I feel these days is that we've talked a lot about AI seeing as much as we know. But these days, I think it's an era where you don't see as much as you know, but as much as you've used it. But that's what content is supposed to have. For example, it doesn't make sense that I don't know much about 'Squid Game' without watching the OTT video called 'Squid Game'. Just like it's better to just watch a movie and OTT rather than watch a lot of analysis. This AI tool has become an era where you can use it easily, so if you try it, you'll be able to say, "Oh, this isn't as difficult as I thought, right? You can use it well. I'm talking about the things that you'll be able to feel.

◇ Choi Hwi: AI is now beginning to permeate all technologies. As such, I think the use of AI is now a necessity, not an option. Specifically, what are the changes in the world caused by AI?

◆ Kim Deok-jin: It's the biggest and amazing. Next year, there will be an era where AI calls, orders, and consults instead of me. And it's already coming. It's already been possible in the United States for a few days. The open AI we're talking about recently has 12 new technologies, and it's dawn every day in Korea. There was an event that opened every 3:30 a.m. in Korea. But one of them is that if we give ChatGPT something and say, "You call the cafe and order it," Now ChatGPT calls first and talks to the person in the cafe easily, so now they're bargaining. It's an era where AI does bargaining and ordering about it. On the contrary, if I'm a person who takes orders from a certain store or does that, I set this AI to say, 'You are the AI that increases our company's sales the most from now on.' So, not only does this guy answer the phone and consult for me, but he also acts as a counselor to increase sales is starting to come out in the United States. Such things will now begin to apply to our country in a way. And one of the other things that we might be surprised about is that we have eyes and ears, as AI said. So now how does this start to apply. The sunglasses and glasses that we are talking about are equipped with AI. These things are now being released continuously, and earlier this year, the Facebook Meta we're talking about is now releasing Ray Ben sunglasses with cameras on the side of the sunglasses we know. Simply put, if I go to a tourist destination and say, "Explain it to me" while looking at the Eiffel Tower, the AI connected to these sunglasses explains the relevant information to me like a tourist secretary. For example, if I show the Apple Intelligence on my iPhone on the camera in front of a restaurant in Paris, he says, "You want to see the menu inside that restaurant," and I didn't even enter the restaurant as I was connected to the Internet. It's practically possible now to display blog information and restaurant information on my phone. Some people might think, 'What kind of movie is this talking about?' but the technology is already out. Since those things are being tested one by one in the United States, whether we know it or not, AI that will change our habits and our lives are permeating our lives from the first half of this year. What's most surprising about that is that AIs are starting to be introduced one by one in the smartphones that we're using and the glasses that we've always talked about.

◇ Yes, that's it for today. Thank you.

◆ Kim Deok-jin: Yes, thank you.

◇ Choi Hwi: I was with Kim Deok-jin, head of the IT Communication Research Institute.