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Off-topic: 2008 ... everyone was using G product (in my env at least). Imagine saying back then "10 years from now Google will provide military with artificial
by creo 8y ago
Off-topic: 2008 ... everyone was using G product (in my env at least). Imagine saying back then "10 years from now Google will provide military with artificial intelligence".
- dekhn 8y agoThis was an obvious outcome to me. I'm a Googler, previously worked for a national lab (non confidential, but the military was free to use our free software products), and I always expected that one of the end games of a US company with advanced ML would be selling it to the US government.
- astura 8y agoOnly surprising to people who are ignorant of history, the entirety of Silicon Valley was built on the back of military funding. http://www.businessinsider.com/the-us-military-is-responsible-for-almost-all-the-technology-in-your-iphone-2014-10 http://www.businessinsider.com/the-us-military-is-responsibl... https://steveblank.com/secret-history/ https://steveblank.com/secret-history/ http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/the_next_silicon_valley/2013/12/the_origins_of_silicon_valley_could_they_ever_be_replicated.html http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/the_next_silicon_va...
- acct1771 8y agoThey've been assisting with govt/.MIL intelligence tech forever. The artificial part is just the nature progression of such.