{"id":102820,"date":"2020-02-25T09:17:57","date_gmt":"2020-02-25T17:17:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/russias-ai-quest-is-state-driven-even-more-than-chinas-can-it-work"},"modified":"2020-02-25T09:17:57","modified_gmt":"2020-02-25T17:17:57","slug":"russias-ai-quest-is-state-driven-even-more-than-chinas-can-it-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/russias-ai-quest-is-state-driven-even-more-than-chinas-can-it-work","title":{"rendered":"Russia\u2019s AI Quest is State-Driven \u2014 Even More than China\u2019s. Can It Work?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/russias-ai-quest-is-state-driven-even-more-than-chinas-can-it-work.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Handicaps: weak private sector, Soviet-style bureaucracy. Helps: Great STEM education \u2014 and history.<\/p>\n<p><strong>More than Western governments and even more <\/strong>than China\u2019s, the Russian government is trying to position itself as a facilitator of innovation in artificial intelligence, the technology that Vladimir Putin <a href=\"https:\/\/tvzvezda.ru\/news\/vstrane_i_mire\/content\/201709011425-qb2f.htm\">said<\/a> will lead whoever masters it to global advantage. Russia seeks \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/futurerussia.gov.ru\/nacionalnye-proekty\/v-razvitii-cifrovyh-tehnologij-rossia-pojdet-svoim-putem---medvedev\">to go our own way<\/a>,\u201d said Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, borrowing Lenin\u2019s 1917 words about various anti-capitalist ideologies to describe his government\u2019s 21st-century attempt to shake the world.<\/p>\n<p>Those who doubt that this uniquely state-heavy approach can succeed would do well to remember that today\u2019s internet and mobile telecommunications grew out of Pentagon-funded research, that the Soviet Union led the Space Race for a decade, and that U.S. astronauts currently ascend to orbit atop Russian rockets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Handicaps: weak private sector, Soviet-style bureaucracy. Helps: Great STEM education \u2014 and history. More than Western governments and even more than China\u2019s, the Russian government is trying to position itself as a facilitator of innovation in artificial intelligence, the technology that Vladimir Putin said will lead whoever masters it to global advantage. Russia seeks \u201cto [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":563,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1490,418,9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-internet","category-military","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/563"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}