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Re:Google's Work with China Eroding US Military Advantage, D... by bduerst on Friday March 22, 2019 @02:45PM (#19465628)
Google refused to work on the machine vision for U.S. military drones that kill thousands of people (project maven). [1] Google's work in China is building an AI center to promote AI in general. [2]

These are not the same things.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence_arms_r...

[2] http://fortune.com/2017/12/13/google-china-artificial-intell...

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Re:Google's Work with China Eroding US Military Advantage, D... by chibg10 on Friday March 22, 2019 @03:08PM (#19465845)
Is Google's AI work in China public though? If that's not the case, I see Dunford's point.

The DoD does not have a unit in Deepmind ensuring all of their findings are evaluated for potential military usage as far as I know. Whereas that's certainly going to happening in any Google AI lab on China.

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Re:Google's Work with China Eroding US Military Advantage, D... by bduerst on Friday March 22, 2019 @05:35PM (#19467207)
Not sure, though if we are speculating, it's most likely a talent acquisition move for recruiting the best data scientists in China, rather than some conspiracy to help the Chinese military.
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Re:Google's Work with China Eroding US Military Advantage, D... by acct1771 on Saturday March 23, 2019 @12:39PM (#19471141)
When they're all the same bucket...
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Re:Google's Work with China Eroding US Military Advantage, D... by yumraj on Friday March 22, 2019 @02:50PM (#19465662)
which would be then used by the Chinese military to work on the machine vision for Chinese military drones that kill thousands of people.
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Re:Google's Work with China Eroding US Military Advantage, D... by FourierTformed on Friday March 22, 2019 @04:32PM (#19466603)
Where are Chinese military drones killing thousands of people? That's Nato's prerogative
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