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Miniaturizing electronics, increase battery, signal processing, improved cameras, ML on phones, voice and command recognition on phones, computational photograp
by RcouF1uZ4gsC 8y ago
Miniaturizing electronics, increase battery, signal processing, improved cameras, ML on phones, voice and command recognition on phones, computational photography, object detection on phones - are just some of the stuff that can be used to improve phones, but are really easy to find military uses for.
- mark_edward 8y agoIf google co-operates with teaching kinematics to Chinese teenagers, many of those teenagers may grow up to use them to shoot rockets at the US.
- gisely 8y agoWe can't help them to learn arithmetic either! They'll raise a generation of killer robot engineers and enslave us ;)
- throwawayjava 8y ago...and all those things are developed by literally hundreds of other companies that often interact with Chinese businesses. The US could prohibit export of advanced battery technology or image processing or... This is not about national security. This is very explicitly a response to Google's desire not to cooperate with the US military on explicitly defense-related research. Two senators literally drew that line for us.