{"id":80831,"date":"2018-07-21T19:02:51","date_gmt":"2018-07-22T02:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/heres-how-the-russian-military-is-organizing-to-develop-ai"},"modified":"2018-07-21T19:02:51","modified_gmt":"2018-07-22T02:02:51","slug":"heres-how-the-russian-military-is-organizing-to-develop-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/heres-how-the-russian-military-is-organizing-to-develop-ai","title":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s How the Russian Military Is Organizing to Develop AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/heres-how-the-russian-military-is-organizing-to-develop-ai2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Harking back to Soviet big science, a 10-point plan calls for new organizations and focus areas, from job training to a giant new R&amp;D campus.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Russian Ministry of Defense is pursuing <\/strong>artificial intelligence with an urgency that has only grown since Vladimir Putin\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.defenseone.com\/ideas\/2018\/04\/russia-races-forward-ai-development\/147178\/\">rule the world<\/a>\u201d speech in September. But after several years of watching American and Chinese researchers accumulate breakthroughs and funding, while Russia continues to lack a relevant high-tech culture, Ministry leaders have decided that if they can\u2019t outspend their global competitors, perhaps they can out-organize them.<\/p>\n<p>So in March, the MOD \u2014 along with the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, or MES ; and the Russian Academy of Sciences \u2014 gathered domestic and international developers and users at a <a href=\"http:\/\/xn--80abdxcgbiual9c5b.xn--p1ai\/conf\">conference<\/a> intended to take stock of the world\u2019s AI prowess, and <a href=\"http:\/\/xn--80abdxcgbiual9c5b.xn--p1ai\/conf\">develop plans<\/a> to focus Russia\u2019s academic, scientific, and commercial communities to compete.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defenseone.com\/ideas\/2018\/07\/russian-militarys-ai-development-roadmap\/149900\/?oref=DefenseOneFB\">https:\/\/www.defenseone.com\/ideas\/2018\/07\/russian-militarys-a...fenseOneFB<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harking back to Soviet big science, a 10-point plan calls for new organizations and focus areas, from job training to a giant new R&amp;D campus. The Russian Ministry of Defense is pursuing artificial intelligence with an urgency that has only grown since Vladimir Putin\u2019s \u201crule the world\u201d speech in September. But after several years of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80831","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\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}