Tue. 03/06 - Google Ads AI to Drones?

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🗓️ 6 March 2018

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Google adds AI to drones, Uber trucks start hauling cargo, reading the Uber tea leaves, Washington State brings back net neutrality, Bumble bans guns, and Dyson cuts the cord. Literally. Google says it provides TensorFlow APIs to US Dept of Defense to help interpret drone footage, is working on policies and safeguards for use of machine learning Gizmodo Uber begins using its self-driving trucks for some long haul cargo trips in Arizona as part of Uber Freight service, leaving the last stretch to human drivers The VergeNew York TimesYouTube Source: Uber has burned $10.7B total so far, making its losses worse than tech giants when they had same market cap; revenue lags firms with similar market capBloomberg Washington becomes first state to enact its own net neutrality protections as its bill is signed into law; 25+ states have introduced net neutrality billsGeekwireMashable Bumble updates policy to ban firearm images and will use ~5K moderators to remove gun-related content, won't censor images appearing in users' Instagram feedsNew York TimesTechCrunch@jrsalzman Dyson says it's done making corded vacuumsCNET Credits: Produced by @brianmcc and the @techmeme staff Music by @jpschwinghamer Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Mem Ride Home for Tuesday March 6th, 2018.
0:09.0	Today, Google adds AI to drones.
0:12.0	Uber trucks start hauling cargo, reading the Uber tea leaves,
0:17.6	Washington State brings back net neutrality, Bumble bans guns, and Dyson cuts the cord literally.
0:25.0	Here's what happened today in tech.
0:27.0	Google is apparently helping the Pentagon build AI for drones.
0:35.0	Gizmodo is reporting that Google is a partner with the Department of Defense on its so-called Project
0:41.3	Maven, which is an effort to identify and classify objects in the live
0:46.0	feeds of drone footage.
0:48.9	Google is apparently providing its Tensor Flow APIs, which are used in machine learning applications to help the Pentagon detect
0:56.4	objects in videos. The obvious utility of such a technique would be to better identify targets
1:01.8	on the battlefield.
1:03.0	Google's involvement in this project had not been previously known,
1:06.0	but it was discussed widely at Google last week
1:10.0	when information on the project was posted to an internal mailing list.
1:15.0	According to Gizmodo, knowledge of the program provoked a quote,
1:19.0	firestorm of reaction, with some employees questioning the ethics of using machine learning techniques in this sort of application and others simply outrage that Google would be a partner in military drone surveillance activity at all.
1:34.1	Google maintains that its involvement in Project Maven is not for combat purposes,
1:39.6	and an unnamed spokesman told Gizmoto that Google is working to, quote,
1:44.5	develop policies and safeguards around the development and use of our machine learning
1:48.9	technologies.
1:50.8	Project Maven is a crash course project that the Pentagon established in April of last year.
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