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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

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_race#Disassociation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence_arms_r... [2] http://fortune.com/2017/12/13/google-china-artificial-intelligence/ http://fortune.com/2017/12/13/google-china-artificial-intell...

yumraj 8y ago
which would be then used by the Chinese military to work on the machine vision for Chinese military drones that kill thousands of people.
- FourierTformed 8y ago
  Where are Chinese military drones killing thousands of people? That's Nato's prerogative
chibg10 8y ago
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.
- bduerst 8y ago
  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.
  - acct1771 8y ago
    When they're all the same bucket...