Google Project Maven: Twelve Google employees quit company because they did not agree with the plan to develop AI for the US Army, through a program called Project Maven. Meanwhile another 4.000 others signed a petition demanding a halt to work on this project.
The slogan “Do not Be Evil"Does not appear to be the case in this case as Google is reportedly preparing to develop machine learning systems to enhance the United States war machine.
For those who are wondering: No Goggle does not prepare robot assassins, and will not develop weapons for the government, according to Google Cloud CEO Diane Greene. But it will help the army to regulate it TensorFlow to be able to analyze videos taken by drones.
Η online report which has more than 4.000 signatures, disputes the claims of company leaders and probably does not make a mistake:
Recently, Google employees expressed their concerns and concerns about the Maven project. Diane Greene responded, assuring them that the technology would not "work to fly aircraft" and "would not be used for launching weapons". Although this eliminates a small part of immediate applications, the technology is built for the military and will be used to assist in these tasks.
We can not know if Project Maven will or may not go on, but what we are sure about is that Google will not be back because 12 employees have left.
After all, no one is irreplaceable, especially for companies of Google's scope. A positive reframe from the company (don't laugh there's a chance we'll hear this too) is that we're teaching the military how to use open source software code.
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