Post by Enter Nations on Apr 13, 2018 18:40:48 GMT
The US Department of Defense I could use Google Cloud and its 'machine learning' service despite strong opposition from the company's employees.
In the middle of the US offensive on Syria, the news that Google is interested in offering its services in the cloud and its deep learning to organizations related to military actions has not been good for the company's employees.
A 9to5Google report citing specialized military sources, says that after one month was known one of the first contracts of Google with the Department of Defense of the United States, the opposition of employees to this type of work has not done more that grow
According to sources, Google is interested in Google Cloud and its machine learning services can serve for private projects of different kinds, and one of them is the military.
The Department of Defense is taking forward a project to support combat operations with artificial intelligence, called Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI), which-according to the source-would have a budget of US $ 10,000 million for the next decade, and where Amazon, Microsoft and Oracle would also be competing.
Last month, when Google signed the Project Maven contract - which targets computer vision and the use of machine learning and deep learning - with the Department of Defense, some 3,100 employees signed a petition to Sundar Pichai, president executive of the company, to cancel the program and not be involved in the future in anything similar.
The sources cite Diane Greene, head of Google Cloud, who said Thursday that the company is working "on a series of ethical principles to guide the use of the company's products and technologies" in this type of project.
When Green explained the Project Maven to employees, he said Google would not build weapons, although many employees still oppose "indirect" military use.
In the middle of the US offensive on Syria, the news that Google is interested in offering its services in the cloud and its deep learning to organizations related to military actions has not been good for the company's employees.
A 9to5Google report citing specialized military sources, says that after one month was known one of the first contracts of Google with the Department of Defense of the United States, the opposition of employees to this type of work has not done more that grow
According to sources, Google is interested in Google Cloud and its machine learning services can serve for private projects of different kinds, and one of them is the military.
The Department of Defense is taking forward a project to support combat operations with artificial intelligence, called Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI), which-according to the source-would have a budget of US $ 10,000 million for the next decade, and where Amazon, Microsoft and Oracle would also be competing.
Last month, when Google signed the Project Maven contract - which targets computer vision and the use of machine learning and deep learning - with the Department of Defense, some 3,100 employees signed a petition to Sundar Pichai, president executive of the company, to cancel the program and not be involved in the future in anything similar.
The sources cite Diane Greene, head of Google Cloud, who said Thursday that the company is working "on a series of ethical principles to guide the use of the company's products and technologies" in this type of project.
When Green explained the Project Maven to employees, he said Google would not build weapons, although many employees still oppose "indirect" military use.
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