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Whatever many many bad things Anthony Levandowski may have done, he picked up his own check in Google. The guy developed street view for example. Their AI ethi
by Simon_O_Rourke 3y ago
Whatever many many bad things Anthony Levandowski may have done, he picked up his own check in Google. The guy developed street view for example.
Their AI ethics team appears, at least to a Google outsider, to engage almost exclusively in rent seeking behavior. I'm surprised many of them continue to pick up a paycheck.
- choppaface 3y agoStreet View started before Levandowski ever joined Google, and his role in Street View was as an investor not an IC. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Street_View https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Street_View If there’s any rent-seeking behavior, it’s Levandowski’s church of AI https://www.wired.com/story/anthony-levandowski-artificial-intelligence-religion/ https://www.wired.com/story/anthony-levandowski-artificial-i...
- Simon_O_Rourke 3y agoPerhaps the church of Al can throw a few bucks the way of the recently not-fired-but-no-longer-employed AI ethics crew, similar levels of grift going on in each.