So, I heard that the Korean(South) government is currently pouring extravagant amounts of won into robotics development.

Does this also imply "artificial intelligence?"
because you can "program" a robot to do things, but this doesn't necessarily mean that it can be intelligent.

i think general artificial intelligence will do a lot better for korea in the future, because any country can just come up with a bunch of robots that do specific tasks. artificial intelligence will allow for robots to create more robots, recursively.

i believe that artificial intelligence is the key to korea's success, since the notion that a "better-controlled, large population" is essentially an amalgamation of intelligences.

if korea can develop truly intelligent machines, then population won't be a problem when comparing against larger, developing nations in the future.

For further reading, try "On Intelligence" by Jeff Hawkins.
it's a good book.

Korean military already as intelligent automated robots. Its the only one of their kind, the Americans have something similar but they are not automated, they are remotely controlled. Japanese dont have anything like either country so no comparison.

a few years ago, a robotics organization pegged south Korean robotics as 80% of the US and Japan. I imagine today we are #1, at the very least we are competing successfully with Americans in terms of advancement.

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wtf you talking about...?

we already have robots!!!!

its called - the united states government...

Nope. The U.S. is ahead of ROK in terms of military robotic technology, in both unmanned remote-controlled and A.I.-controlled, by at least two generations. The main difference is that U.S. wants to iron out the program before deploying them to the field in high numbers, while ROK wants to field them ASAP.

US has no automated robots near deployment.