Samsung Electronics’ software program expertise growth program, the Samsung Youth Software program & AI Academy (SSAFY), has contributed to youth job creation by producing over 8,500 cumulative job placements by this yr. The corporate plans to speed up synthetic intelligence (AI) expertise growth, which has emerged as a nationwide precedence, by including AI curriculum this yr.
Samsung introduced on Dec. 18 that it held a commencement ceremony for the thirteenth cohort on the Samsung Youth Software program & AI Academy (SSAFY) Seoul campus in Gangnam-gu, Seoul. The occasion was attended by about 100 individuals, together with key figures equivalent to Minister of Employment and Labor Kim Younger-hoon, Samsung Electronics CR Division President Park Seung-hee, graduates, and their households.
SSAFY is considered a company social duty (CSR) program that embodies Samsung Electronics Chairman Lee Jae-yong’s philosophy of partnership. To boost youth employment competitiveness, it develops software program builders by intensive 1,725 hours of schooling over one yr. The schooling program is free, and all trainees obtain 1 million received in month-to-month instructional assist. Since its launch in 2018, this system has produced 10,125 cumulative graduates by the twelfth cohort, with 8,566 discovering employment, recording roughly an 85% employment fee. Graduates have discovered jobs at varied corporations throughout completely different industries, together with Samsung Electronics, KT DS, LG Uplus, and Hyundai Mobis. The variety of corporations the place they’ve discovered employment reaches 2,355.
Notably from this yr, to contribute to national-level AI expertise growth, the curriculum has been utterly reorganized round AI. Of the annual 1,725 hours, 1,025 hours are allotted to AI schooling, with eight new AI programs launched. Main home college AI school from KAIST, Seoul Nationwide College, and Yonsei College participated within the curriculum reorganization.
The schooling program is structured in levels. Within the first semester, college students construct fundamentals by AI introductory lectures, programming, and arithmetic and statistics-based AI basis schooling. Within the second semester, they develop precise {industry} problem-solving capabilities by AI sensible workshops and workforce tasks. The main focus is on hands-on apply instantly making use of cutting-edge AI applied sciences equivalent to generative AI, laptop imaginative and prescient, and pure language processing.
Sensible expertise is especially strengthened by company partnership AI tasks. Trainees have carried out precise AI duties offered by corporations, equivalent to growing gross sales administration techniques primarily based on service provider cost information for Kakao Pay and growing webtoon creation packages for picture and video-based 3D movement and pose extraction for ToonSquare. Samsung plans to repeatedly increase such industry-academia collaboration AI tasks.
A web-based platform has additionally been established to strengthen trainees’ self-directed studying. By means of the AI portal, trainees can repeatedly research AI-related on-line lectures, skilled workshops, and superior studying content material. Graphics processing unit (GPU) assets for AI experiments are supplied, together with main generative AI instruments equivalent to ChatGPT and Gemini. Samsung has been growing practice-centered AI instructional content material in collaboration with AI specialist firm Upstage since final yr. AI competency enhancement schooling can also be performed for SSAFY instructors and working workers to repeatedly enhance instructional high quality.
By means of SSAFY, trainees with various backgrounds, together with these from non-technical fields, are rising into software program and AI specialists. thirteenth cohort graduate Choi Sang-in developed an AI emergency response assistant, using his expertise working as a paramedic. It’s a resolution that guides customers to optimum hospitals by figuring out distances to close by emergency rooms and emergency room affected person capability standing. Choi Seon-woo, who has expertise working in facility websites, developed a distant and autonomous work assist system primarily based on his area expertise and received first place within the second-half mission.
Minister Kim stated, “The function of SW·AI expertise is essential for the Republic of Korea’s leap to develop into one of many three AI powerhouses,” including, “The Ministry of Employment and Labor will proceed to assist glorious expertise growth packages like SSAFY by varied tasks together with ‘Okay-Digital Coaching.’” President Park stated, “Many corporations are accelerating AI transformation of their companies,” including, “I hope you’ll make the AI period your alternative.”
