https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...ject-maven

Google has created a monster that is consuming them.

"Should Google, a global company with intimate access to the lives of billions, use its technology to bolster one country’s military dominance? Should it use its state of the art artificial intelligence technologies, its best engineers, its cloud computing services, and the vast personal data that it collects to contribute to programs that advance the development of autonomous weapons? Should it proceed despite moral and ethical opposition by several thousand of its own employees?
Gizmodo reported this week that more than a dozen Google employees have resigned over Google providing AI support to a Pentagon drone program called Project Maven, which aims to improve the ability of drones to identify humans. This follows a public letter, signed by 3,100-plus Google employees who say that Google should not be in the business of war...."

(05-17-2018 07:41 AM)bullet Wrote:  https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...ject-maven

Google has created a monster that is consuming them.

"Should Google, a global company with intimate access to the lives of billions, use its technology to bolster one country’s military dominance? Should it use its state of the art artificial intelligence technologies, its best engineers, its cloud computing services, and the vast personal data that it collects to contribute to programs that advance the development of autonomous weapons? Should it proceed despite moral and ethical opposition by several thousand of its own employees?
Gizmodo reported this week that more than a dozen Google employees have resigned over Google providing AI support to a Pentagon drone program called Project Maven, which aims to improve the ability of drones to identify humans. This follows a public letter, signed by 3,100-plus Google employees who say that Google should not be in the business of war...."

I guess they're more comfortable with drones killing whoever happens to be in the area v. identifying and killing specific targets.

I don't know how people can function is society being so naive and stupid. Hate to break it to them, but there are BAD people out there who would kill them in a blink of an eye for not practicing the "correct" religion (for example). Those people don't care about their "public letters" or COEXIST bumper stickers, they just see infidels who must be killed. Someone has to protect and defend, that someone is the military.