KT to hold AI coding lectures at universities

South Korea’s KT Corp. is expanding operations of its artificial intelligence (AI) coding education platform AI Codiny.

The company on Sunday said it recently decided to expand the platform’s use from elementary, middle and high schools to universities given rising interest in the latter due to the wide use of AI in everyday life. KT this year has doubled the number of its servers for AI Codiny.

"We've gotten many positive responses to the idea of opening a liberal arts course on AI coding education," said Park Chan-Beom, a manager at KT’s AI platform unit. "We're thinking of changing our strategy of only targeting elementary, middle and high school students."

AI Codiny makes it easy to understand, access and use AI coding principles because it is stacked in the form of blocks instead of the complex and difficult methods of conventional coding. Even novices unfamiliar with AI coding can easily use AI services with just a few mouse clicks.

KT this year will also roll out as new tools for AI Codiny prefabricated drones and game engines. Announcing the provision of creative AI coding education of varying difficulty levels, it added, “This is to expand the environment of use to make AI coding education more interesting and efficient."

KT said it has supplied AI Codiny to around 2,500 elementary, middle, and high school classrooms nationwide, with the goal of expanding the service to all colleges.

The platform is also used in preparation for the AI Certificate for Everyone (AICE), which assesses AI application capabilities and as the nation’s first AI educational and evaluation tool jointly developed by The Korea Economic Daily and KT.

Mostly adults and high school students have used AICE, but the latter now covers elementary and middle school students through the recent release of AICE Future.

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