{"id":19763,"date":"2015-12-03T07:46:46","date_gmt":"2015-12-03T15:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/cambridge-university-launches-10-million-ai-research-centre-to-move-away-from-science-fiction"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:18:20","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:18:20","slug":"cambridge-university-launches-10-million-ai-research-centre-to-move-away-from-science-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/cambridge-university-launches-10-million-ai-research-centre-to-move-away-from-science-fiction","title":{"rendered":"Cambridge University launches \u00a310 million AI research centre, to \u2018move away from science fiction\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cambridge-university-launches-10-million-ai-research-centre-to-move-away-from-science-fiction.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What will happen when machines become smarter than us?<\/p>\n<p>It used to be a question purely for science fiction writers, but with experts predicting human-level AI could become a reality within this century, it\u2019s become a pressing issue for scientists and philosophers, as they try to predict how our world will change.<\/p>\n<p>Keen not to be left behind, Cambridge University has been at the forefront of the issue, and today announced the launch of a brand new centre, dedicated to answering the very real questions once seen solely as the preserve of Doctor Who or Stanley Kubrick\u2019s HAL.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cambridge-news.co.uk\/Cambridge-University-launches-10-million-AI\/story-28287166-detail\/story.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What will happen when machines become smarter than us? It used to be a question purely for science fiction writers, but with experts predicting human-level AI could become a reality within this century, it\u2019s become a pressing issue for scientists and philosophers, as they try to predict how our world will change. Keen not to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":109,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19763","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\/109"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19763"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69077,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19763\/revisions\/69077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}