Google Project Maven: Twelve Google employees quit company γιατί δεν συμφωνούσαν με το σχέδιο ανάπτυξης ai για τον Αμερικάνικο Στρατό, μέσω ενός προlettercalled Project Maven. Meanwhile another 4.000 others have signed a petition demanding the stop work in the specific 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 δολοφόνων, και δεν θα αναπτύξει όπλα για την κυβέρνηση, σύμφωνα με την CEO του Google Cloud Diane Greene. Θα βοηθήσει όμως το στρατό να ρυθμίσει το TensorFlow για να μπορεί να αναλύει video 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.
Moreover, no one is irreplaceable, especially for companies within the reach of Google. A positive reinvigoration from the company (do not be laughable to hear this too) is that we are teaching the army how to use open source software.
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