{"id":14068,"date":"2015-04-25T15:00:07","date_gmt":"2015-04-25T22:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=14068"},"modified":"2017-04-25T04:06:28","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T11:06:28","slug":"russian-millionaire-taking-artificial-intelligence-to-next-level","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/russian-millionaire-taking-artificial-intelligence-to-next-level","title":{"rendered":"Russian Millionaire Taking Artificial Intelligence to Next Level"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"author\">By <a class=\"author-name\" href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/user\/9665\" rel=\"author\">Rory Ross<\/a><\/span> \u2014 NewsWeek<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" dir=\"ltr\">Despite his millions, the world of Moscow property development left Nikolay Gurianov \u201creally bored.\u201d Two motorbike crashes later, he reckoned it was time to move on, find a new business and swap two wheels for four.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">He asked a marketeer: \u201cWhat is the most interesting business that isn\u2019t property, oil, armaments, diamonds, drugs or slavery?\u201d And so began his career in IT\u2014and a switch to Aston Martins.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">In 2002, he set up Braintree, a technology outfit that helped Russian firms \u201coptimise databases.\u201d But databases too failed to ignite Gurianov. Drifting, he lit on artificial intelligence (AI). At last, here was a challenge fit for both intellect and wallet. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/2015\/04\/24\/russian-millionaire-ready-lift-artificial-intelligence-above-human-322939.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Rory Ross \u2014 NewsWeek Despite his millions, the world of Moscow property development left Nikolay Gurianov \u201creally bored.\u201d Two motorbike crashes later, he reckoned it was time to move on, find a new business and swap two wheels for four. He asked a marketeer: \u201cWhat is the most interesting business that isn\u2019t property, oil, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14068","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\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14068"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46532,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14068\/revisions\/46532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}