Google helps Pentagon analyze military drone footage—employees “outraged”

Google helps Pentagon analyze military drone footage—employees “outraged”

  • March 7, 2018
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Google helps Pentagon analyze military drone footage—employees “outraged”

A report from Gizmodo says that Google is partnering with the United States Department of Defense and building drone software. The project will reportedly apply Google’s usual machine learning prowess to identify objects in drone footage.  Google’s involvement in the project wasn’t public, but it was apparently discussed internally at Google last week and leaked.

Source: arstechnica.com

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