south korea will try to save itself from the inevitable robot takeover by investing $860 million in ai /

South Korea appears to be taking a “whether you can’t beat ‘em,join ‘em” approach to the forthcoming machine revolution. On Thursday, president Park Geun-hye announced plans to invest roughly $860 million in the country’s artificial intelligence industry by 2020, and largely as a response to the recent shellacking of countryman Lee Sedol at the hands of—you guessed it—Google’s artificial intelligence bot AlphaGo.
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Source: gawker.com