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Daily Mail: Google pulls out of controversial military AI project after leaked documents reveal fears of public reaction to $250m a year contract
* Google is pulling out of a controversial AI drone program with the Pentagon
* The firm had agreed to participate in it last April, supplying the military with its TensorFlow software to help analysts identify objects in drone footage
* Google Cloud CEO Diane Greene said the firm won't renew the contract after it expires in 2019, saying that the backlash has 'been terrible for the company'
Google is ending its controversial 'Project Maven' deal with the Pentagon.
Google Cloud boss Diane Greene informed employees of the decision during an internal meeting on Friday morning, Gizmodo reported, citing sources close to the situation.
The contract, in which the Pentagon used Google's artificial intelligence technologies to analyze drone footage, was set to expire in 2019.
Greene told employees that it won't be renewing the contract once it expires.
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WNU Editor: Apparently Google had big expectations for this project .... Google lied about size of Pentagon AI contract, tried to hide project – leaked emails (RT). More here .... Leaks show that Google expected its modest AI-for-drones business to expand exponentiall (Boing Boing).
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Google Plans Not to Renew Its Contract for Project Maven, a Controversial Pentagon Drone AI Imaging Program -- Gizmodo
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Google will not renew Pentagon contract that upset employees -- Straits Times/New York Times
Google to End Military Contract Following Employee Complaints -- VOA
Google says it will not renew controversial Pentagon contract -- CNN
Google will not seek follow up Artificial Intelligence for military drone contracts -- Next Big Future
Google Won't Renew Controversial Pentagon AI Project -- Wired
Google Won’t Renew Its Drone AI Contract, But It May Still Sign Future Military AI Contracts -- The Intercept
Democracy is cool and all. But in a world where you have totalitarian states like north Korea, China, Iran and Russia, we cannot operate in this vacuum of political correctness and absolute rightfulness.
ReplyDeleteWe now have SJWs directly impacting national security. If you don't like what Google does, just leave. Work at an organic food store if you have such a hard time and are so conflicted over national security just because it touches on AI.
We f'ing need AI. And we need companies like Google working on it. Or you SJWs get together and stop china's and russia's AI research. But you can't and you won't. So you're making the problem bigger.
Russia and China will not stop and will not comply with international AI standards. This is the reality.
And if we don't have "good" AI to stop "bad" AI, a drum circle and people chanting peace songs will not help. This is more important than the race for the bomb.
"Good is evil seen from the other side." Victor Hugo
ReplyDeleteOne that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good. Edmund Burke
ReplyDelete"The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil." - Marcus Tullius Cicero
ReplyDeleteOh oh pick me. Pick me!
ReplyDelete“While the wicked stand confounded call on me with thy saints surrounded”.
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ReplyDeleteWow. Minders, huh? It's a regular Oceania.
ReplyDeleteYou know there is a difference between authoritarian and totalitarianism, right?
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ReplyDeleteTo the smarty pants who claimed China, Iran and North Korea are not totalitarian states: In what world do you live? I have been only to China, admittedly, but several times. Have you? If you want to doubt Iran and North Korea to be totalitarian, you're trying to be funny.
ReplyDeleteIf you are trying to say that China is not totalitarian, you are either brain washed or did not pay attention. Xi is president for life now. You noticed? No more elections. There was also only one party all the time, but now there's also only one rules. Forever. You get that? That's been news for several months now. On top, their torture chambers, abductions of book sellers from Hong Kong (you follow the news at all?), suppression of naval rights (South China sea) militarization of South china sea, roughening up (sometimes disappearing) of fishermen of other nations in the areas China claims, arming of North Korea (everything from mobile rocket launchers to the actual rocket fuel the Norsk will use in a war with us). On top the whole deal that information into China is being filtered more an more (the chinese firewall, you heard of that?), their social credit system (you heard of that?)
F u man, if you have no freaking idea what's happening and what China is doing and what a totalitarian state looks like, then first read up before rushing to their defence