{"id":23717,"date":"2016-03-18T10:46:54","date_gmt":"2016-03-18T17:46:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/south-korea-trumpets-860-million-ai-fund-after-alphago-shock"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:05:38","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:05:38","slug":"south-korea-trumpets-860-million-ai-fund-after-alphago-shock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/south-korea-trumpets-860-million-ai-fund-after-alphago-shock","title":{"rendered":"South Korea trumpets $860-million AI fund after AlphaGo \u2018shock\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/south-korea-trumpets-860-million-ai-fund-after-alphago-shock.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>Nature<\/i> News reports:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cScrambling to respond to the success of Google DeepMind\u2019s world-beating Go program AlphaGo, South Korea announced on 17 March that it would invest $863 million (1 trillion won) in artificial-intelligence (AI) research over the next five years [towards] founding of a high-profile, public\u2013private research centre with participation from several Korean conglomerates, including Samsung, LG Electronics and Hyundai Motor, as well as the technology firm Naver, based near Seoul.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>President Geun-Hye emphasized that \u201cartificial intelligence can be a blessing for human society\u201d and called it \u201cthe fourth industrial revolution\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Historic win by Google DeepMind\u2019s Go-playing program has South Korean government playing catch-up on artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/south-korea-trumpets-860-million-ai-fund-after-alphago-shock-1.19595\">http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/south-korea-trumpets-860-million-...ck-1.19595<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nature News reports: \u201cScrambling to respond to the success of Google DeepMind\u2019s world-beating Go program AlphaGo, South Korea announced on 17 March that it would invest $863 million (1 trillion won) in artificial-intelligence (AI) research over the next five years [towards] founding of a high-profile, public\u2013private research centre with participation from several Korean conglomerates, including [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":109,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1490,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23717","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=23717"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67966,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23717\/revisions\/67966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}