The 4th LG Aimers, to Inspire Young Adults to Become AI Experts
The 4th LG Aimers, a program to train AI experts, has successfully come to a close. The 4th Aimers program, which started in January 2024 and ran for 3 months, attracted a total of over 3,000 applicants. 34 teams and 99 students passed the online AI training and online Hackathon preliminaries to advance to the offline Hackathon finals. Finals took place over a two-day period from April 6th-7th at LG Academy. Participants showed their overwhelming enthusiasm during the finals, leading to a lot of notable moments.
‘LG Aimers’ the AI Expert program for young generation
The LG Aimers program was launched by LG in the second half of 2022 to train young AI experts in improving young adult employment rates and addressing the shortage of human resources in the AI field. The 4th LG Aimers program was designed to build real-world AI capabilities through a month-long course of 33 core theoretical lectures created by LG with help from top AI experts in Korea. These lectures included AI ethics, traditional statistics-based approaches, AI technologies that reflect the latest trends, and domain knowledge to solve Hackathon problems. The participants then used this knowledge to participate in a Hackathon to gain practical experience.
Image 1. Participants of LG Aimers 4th Hackathon
The 4th hackathon where the participants with full of passion
Among the 3,000 students who participated in the 4th LG Aimers, a group of students who completed the AI expert training course advanced to the finals after receiving excellent marks during the month-long online Hackathon preliminaries. These students then participated in the offline Hackathon from April 6th to 7th. The Hackathon gave participants the chance to work with real-world data from LG’s affiliates in the industry. In one particular problem entitled, “Developing a forecasting AI model that utilizes potential customer data to identify customers with high potential to make a purchase,” they learned how to develop an AI model based on data analysis to make knowledgeable future predictions.
Image 2. 1st~4th LG Aimers Hackathon Topic
Image 3. Participants discussing at the 4th LG Aimers offline AI Hackathon
Image 4. LG Career & Consulting Booths at 4th LG Aimers offline AI Hackathon
Winners of the 4th LG Aimers AI Hackathon
After wrapping up its two-day fierce AI hackathon, the participants were evaluated the algorithm and presentation comprehensively, including the final score on the leaderboard, and 3 teams with the highest scores were selected. The first place winner ‘Andrew Ng’, the second place winner ‘In the Meeting Room at 3:49’, and the third place winner ‘Seunghee Kim’ won the honor.
The first-place team was Andrew Ng, a team of five students, who were able to achieve high scores by proposing AI forecasting models implemented with 3 ensembles and tasks that can be added after application in the field. After the announcement of the award, team members said, “It was very good to work with the best colleagues, focusing on solving problems during the two days of the LG Aimers offline hackathon.”
‘In the Meeting Room at 3:49’' team, which won second place, presented a way to utilize domain knowledge in terms of marketing and sales based on an AI model that can reduce data training and forecating time. The team members said, “We were able to get second place thanks to the help of a mentor at the hackathon site.”
Seunghee Kim ranked third with high praise for using a language model that processes given categorical data as natural language text unlike other participants.
Participants said “We were able to grow quickly by acquiring development skills and field domain knowledge within a short period of time through offline hackathon for two days, and at the end, it was a good experience to hear various ideas through the presentation of other participants.”
Image 5. The 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place teams presentation & Q&A
LG Aimers, a Program to Support Young Adults who Aspire to Become AI Experts
LG Aimers went above and beyond its original 4,000 annual training target, with 9,193 people participating in the program by the end of its 4th batch. It was recognized for this achievement and awarded the Minister of Employment and Labor Award at the end of last year for being an outstanding program as a “Young Adult-Friendly Corporate ESG Support Project.”
LG Aimers is open to young adults aged 19 to 29 with basic AI knowledge and coding skills and is held twice a year during summer and winter breaks to accommodate university schedules. LG AI Research plans to actively work toward providing meaningful and enriching experiences for young adults who aspire to become AI experts.
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