industryterm:artificial intelligence technology

Google Won’t Renew Its Drone AI Contract, But It May Still Sign Future Military AI Contracts
▻https://theintercept.com/2018/06/01/google-drone-ai-project-maven-contract-renew

Google executives announced to company staff this morning that the tech giant won’t renew its contract to work on Project Maven, the controversial Pentagon program designed to provide the military with artificial intelligence technology used to help drone operators identify images on the battlefield. Google will continue work on the project through March 2019, according to multiple people with knowledge of the announcement, but once the 18-month contract concludes, it will not be renewed. (...)

#Alphabet #Google #USDepartmentOfDefense #algorithme #drone #militarisation #aérien #vidéo-surveillance #surveillance #ProjectMaven (...)

##reconnaissance

Leaked Emails Show Google Expected Lucrative Military Drone AI Work to Grow Exponentially
▻https://theintercept.com/2018/05/31/google-leaked-emails-drone-ai-pentagon-lucrative

Following the revelation in March that Google had secretly signed an agreement with the Pentagon to provide cutting edge artificial intelligence technology for drone warfare, the company faced an internal revolt. About a dozen Google employees have resigned in protest and thousands have signed a petition calling for an end to the contract. The endeavor, code-named Project Maven by the military, is designed to help drone operators recognize images captured on the battlefield. Google has (...)

#Google #algorithme #ProjectMaven #militarisation #drone #reconnaissance #surveillance (...)

##aérien

10 Best Selling Online Personalized Recommendation Engines
▻https://hackernoon.com/10-best-selling-online-personalized-recommendation-engines-9a7972b6310c?

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Online Product Recommendation Engine — What Is It?An online product recommendation engine is an artificial intelligence technology based #ecommerce tool that enhances shopping experience for customers and key metrics for online store owners. An ecommerce product recommendation engine has larger applications in the fashion industry where visuals direct the buying decision of a customer.What Does an eCommerce Personalization Engine Do?An online product recommendation engine also known as an ecommerce personalization engine, gives product cues that are visually related to their current product choices. It helps customer pick the right fashion apparel with a slightly different cut, model, color, pattern or size from their original choice.Tailor Made for Each Individual CustomerOnline stores not (...)

#sales #online-selling #recommendation-engine #recommendation-system

How to fuck up America :
#Trump has a brilliant plan to turn Silicon Valley into a desert.
(by a sarcastic Kevin Maney)

▻http://europe.newsweek.com/donald-trump-trolls-silicon-valley-543327

1. Humble the Technology Industry

Well, apparently we need to stop immigrants from coming here so there’s more room for Americans to start tech companies. That’s how it works, right? Why would we want people with good ideas from India or Ireland or Israel coming over to build tech companies? Let them do it at home.

2. Dismiss Alternative Energy

In the new regime, oil is better. So is coal. There’s no global warming. No carbon-burning problem. That’s why it’s brilliant to make Rex Tillerson the secretary of state, so he can negotiate better oil deals for us, and give the Department of Energy to Rick Perry, who would like to kill it. You can’t spell America without carbon—or at least some of it.

3. Derail Health Care

New artificial intelligence technology can help doctors sift through millions of pages of medical research and match it to data about a patient to diagnose diseases way better than ever. If U.S. companies get this stuff right and lead such tech advances, they will drive the economy for years.

But that seems to weird out the new regime. Better to preserve traditions: the swamped family doctor, the half-day sitting in waiting rooms reading old copies of O magazine, the prostate exam.
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If millennials want to stay healthy, the new regime is singling, they can abandon the uninsured path of entrepreneurship and instead work at a company that offers health benefits

4. Ignore Russian Hacking

the Russians are now our friends. They wouldn’t steal our data or harm our systems. And other countries like North Korea or Iran can’t possibly be smart enough to follow Russia’s lead and do damage. So there’s no data security threat to address. We’ll be fine.

5. Shift Resources From Cities to Small Towns and Rural Areas

Cities have a lot of wealthy folks and artists and people who were born in other countries. The trend is toward moving to cities
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But the new regime doesn’t want the future. It won by promising the past.

So too bad, cities. Rural and small town America kicked your butts this time. Cities can bend over and kiss their federal resources goodbye.