Re:Google Employees Resign in Protest Against Pentagon Contract
by creo on Monday May 14, 2018 @09:10AM
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Off-topic: 2008 ... everyone was using G product (in my env at least). Imagine saying back then "10 years from now Google will provide military with artificial intelligence".
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Re:Google Employees Resign in Protest Against Pentagon Contract
by astura on Monday May 14, 2018 @09:46AM
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Only surprising to people who are ignorant of history, the entirety of Silicon Valley was built on the back of military funding.
http://www.businessinsider.com/the-us-military-is-responsibl...
https://steveblank.com/secret-history/
http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/the_next_silicon_va...
Re:Google Employees Resign in Protest Against Pentagon Contract
by acct1771 on Tuesday May 15, 2018 @01:00PM
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They've been assisting with govt/.MIL intelligence tech forever.
The artificial part is just the nature progression of such.
Re:Google Employees Resign in Protest Against Pentagon Contract
by dekhn on Monday May 14, 2018 @10:00AM
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This was an obvious outcome to me. I'm a Googler, previously worked for a national lab (non confidential, but the military was free to use our free software products), and I always expected that one of the end games of a US company with advanced ML would be selling it to the US government.