{"id":9978,"date":"2014-01-28T08:47:02","date_gmt":"2014-01-28T16:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=9978"},"modified":"2017-06-04T12:10:38","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T19:10:38","slug":"what-is-deepmind-the-artificial-intelligence-firm-bought-by-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/what-is-deepmind-the-artificial-intelligence-firm-bought-by-google","title":{"rendered":"What Is DeepMind? The Artificial Intelligence Firm Bought By Google"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <span class=\"author\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibtimes.com\/reporters\/thomas-halleck\" rel=\"author\">Thomas Halleck<\/a> \u2014 International Business Times<\/span><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"DeepMind Google Acquisition Goog AI Artificial Intelligence Robots\" alt=\"DeepMind Google Acquisition Goog AI Artificial Intelligence Robots\" src=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-node-title\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) confirmed that it purchased DeepMind on Monday. The Mountain View, Calif.-based company reportedly paid upwards of $500 million for the artificial intelligence (AI) firm.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">So what is Google getting for its half a billion? A company that\u2019s very good at making computers that think and act as humans do. DeepMind has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theinformation.com\/What-s-Really-Behind-Google-s-DeepMind-Bet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">not yet developed any <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theinformation.com\/What-s-Really-Behind-Google-s-DeepMind-Bet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">commercial products<\/a>. Its main asset appears to be its personnel, including dozens of experts in machine learning, a branch of AI that attempts to teach computers to think like humans. It\u2019s best-known project was a computer system it taught to master Atari video games.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibtimes.com\/what-deepmind-artificial-intelligence-firm-bought-google-1549126\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Thomas Halleck \u2014 International Business Times Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) confirmed that it purchased DeepMind on Monday. The Mountain View, Calif.-based company reportedly paid upwards of $500 million for the artificial intelligence (AI) firm. So what is Google getting for its half a billion? A company that\u2019s very good at making computers that think and act [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1523,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-computing","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9978","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=9978"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65051,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9978\/revisions\/65051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}