South Korea trumpets $860-million AI fund after AlphaGo 'shock'

 South Korean people did take this seriously....

From the news:
Scrambling to respond to the success of Google DeepMind’s 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. It is not immediately clear whether the cash represents new funding, or had been previously allocated to AI efforts. But it does include the founding of a high-profile, public–private 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.

http://www.nature.com/news/south-korea-trumpets-860-million-ai-fund-after-alphago-shock-1.19595