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Google’s cloud division lands deal with the Department of Defense Project Maven

Google’s cloud division lands deal with the Department of Defense

Google CEO Sundar Pichai speaks on stage during the annual Google I/O developers conference in Mountain View, California, May 8, 2018.Stephen Lam | ReutersGoogle Cloud has landed a deal with the Department of Defense, the company announced Wednesday.The deal is in the seven figure range, Axios reported ahead of the release.The deal…
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May 20, 2020
What Google’s New Contract Reveals About the Pentagon’s Evolving Clouds Project Maven

What Google’s New Contract Reveals About the Pentagon’s Evolving Clouds

For one thing, it disproves fears that the massive JEDI contract meant one company would get all the work. Google will build security-and app-management tools for the Pentagon’s Defense Innovation Unit, deepening the Silicon Valley giant’s military ties and illuminating the challenges facing the Defense Department’s drive to a multi-cloud environment.…
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May 20, 2020
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt reportedly once told the US Army’s top special forces general ‘you absolutely suck’ at artificial intelligence Project Maven

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt reportedly once told the US Army’s top special forces general ‘you absolutely suck’ at artificial intelligence

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt told the US special forces' top general "you absolutely suck at machine learning," The New York Times reported Saturday.The comments came in 2016 during Schmidt's push to expand his influence over the US military's strategy around technology and innovation, The New York Times reported.Schmidt now sits…
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May 4, 2020
Secretive big data company Palantir expects $1 billion in revenue this year and to break even for the first time in its 16-year history Project Maven

Secretive big data company Palantir expects $1 billion in revenue this year and to break even for the first time in its 16-year history

Palantir expects to generate $1 billion in revenue this year and to break even for the first time in its history, Bloomberg's Lizette Chapman first reported.Financial documents viewed by Bloomberg suggest that Palantir is preparing to go public.Palantir was previously rumored to go public last year.Visit Business Insider's homepage for…
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April 9, 2020
Pentagon unveils toothless ethical principles for using AI in war Project Maven

Pentagon unveils toothless ethical principles for using AI in war

The Pentagon has announced five ethical principles for the use of AI by the US military. Defense Secretary Mark Esper said the guidelines would accelerate the adoption of lawful and ethical uses of the technology by both combat and non-combat operations, but the hazy proposals contain little detail about how they’ll be applied to…
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February 25, 2020
Pentagon prepares to accelerate use of AI in war by adopting ‘ethical principles’ Project Maven

Pentagon prepares to accelerate use of AI in war by adopting ‘ethical principles’

The US Department of Defense has announced plans to adopt ethical principles to push forward with the use of artificial intelligence within warfare. The Pentagon's Chief Information Officer, Dana Deasy, said the five AI principles would lay the foundation for "the ethical design, development, deployment, and the use of AI by…
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February 25, 2020
Good news, everyone: The US military says it will be ethically minded about how it develops AI Project Maven

Good news, everyone: The US military says it will be ethically minded about how it develops AI

Whew! Defense dept will 'detect and avoid unintended consequences' – so that's fine, right? The US Department of Defense has formally adopted a set principles to ensure the ethical development and deployment of AI technology for military use. "We owe it to the American people and to our men and…
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February 25, 2020
Pentagon Adopts New Ethical Principles for Using Artificial Intelligence in War Project Maven

Pentagon Adopts New Ethical Principles for Using Artificial Intelligence in War

The Pentagon is adopting new ethical principles as it prepares to accelerate its use of artificial intelligence technology on the battlefield.The new principles call for people to "exercise appropriate levels of judgment and care" when deploying and using AI systems, such as those that scan aerial imagery to look for…
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February 25, 2020