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Google To Open AI Center In China Despite Search Ban (bbc.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from BBC: Google is deepening its push into artificial intelligence (AI) by opening a research center in China, even though its search services remain blocked in the country. Google said the facility would be the first its kind in Asia and would aim to employ local talent. In a blog post on the company's website, Google said the new research center was an important part of its mission as an "AI first company." "Whether a breakthrough occurs in Silicon Valley, Beijing or anywhere else, [AI] has the potential to make everyone's life better for the entire world," said Fei-Fei Li, chief scientist at Google Cloud AI and Machine Learning. The research center, which joins similar facilities in London, New York, Toronto and Zurich, will be run by a small team from its existing office in Beijing. The tech giant operates two offices in China, with roughly half of its 600 employees working on global products, company spokesperson Taj Meadows told the AFP news agency. But Google's search engine and a number of other services are banned in China. The country has imposed increasingly strict rules on foreign companies over the past year, including new censorship restrictions.
American troops are fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq to protect our freedom. Because of the American troops ensuring our freedom, American companies like Google are free to operate in countries like China and create jobs there. None of this would be possible without the brave sacrifices made by our troops. The Chinese should be grateful that our troops are fighting to keep terrorists from spreading, because they could end up in places like China. They should also be grateful for American troops ensuring that American companies like Google have the freedom to do business and create jobs in China.
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With the future of visa programs in question, makes sense to be able to hire in other countries rather than let the knowledge go to other countries.
A reasonable hedge.
Wow, sent an e-mail as suggested when clicking on "use classic" banner, and got a fast response that addressed my msg
Maybe Google is under Chinese control and nobody had noticed.
"Whether a breakthrough occurs in Silicon Valley, Beijing or anywhere else" - No, Beijing is not "anywhere" else. It's a closed-off totalitarian regime by default. Fuck that equivalence.
Sounds like Vagina.
The AI book that everyone should get is available for pre-order. "Artificial Intelligence For Dummies" by John Paul Mueller and Luca Massaron.
They've already got their fingers in the American pie and the EU pie, and have hit the point of diminishing returns on investment. Time to buy a piece of the Chinese government! Sadly, Google manipulating Chinese authorities in its own self-interest might actually be an improvement for the public.
How is the Riemann zeta function like Trump rallies? Both have an endless number of trivial zeros.
AI is just part of the next step in your false reality. It does not exist, and probably never will.
Right now, you can look at the weaker, yellower, winter Sun and realize that the tilt of the Earth can not explain it. It is the proof in your face, right now, that the Earth is flat.
Space is fake. The Earth is flat. The eclipses prove it.
This is not the first AI research center in Asia.
pay them less
because American education and culture is so dumbed down they can never produce the people required at home.
In America, all the innovation and hard work being done by highly educated and skilled H1B workers is called "American innovation". I wonder what they will call the work the Chinese will do in China for them?
CIA, NSA, US, China, public private joint partnership on research and development of surveillance and censorship tools for enforcement of the status quo and persecution of dissidents, on both sides of the Pacific.
You laugh, but give it 10 years and see if the revelations then still leave you laughing.
captcha was 'warming', how apt.
any new tech you develop in china stays in china. make china great.
By day the Google AI helps the hard working Chinese people come up with better messages for fortune cookies,
By night when the workers are at home it infiltrates the Chinese Internet and works for Donald Trump.
I don't know how big Deepmind is nowadays, but in an a public lecture two years ago, Deepmind was said to have 150 scientists working on AI, making it the biggest AI project at the time, comparable to the Apollo program.
Let me tell you that again. This is nothing like what Microsoft, IBM and Facebook are doing, they are just playing with AI, implementing what is already known about it. Deepmind is really trying to research and create AI that humans have never seen before. And they have been progressing 10 times faster than anyone expected. Latest thing I heard is that they are trying to add memory to the AI, so that it can have long term goals.
I have always been very interested in science projects, and I have to tell you, this one is currently taking all of my attention.
A market is a market...
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You realize that most of the work of Google requires electricity, do you ?
Or do you suggest that Google actually sets up inside Kim Jong Un's own palace ?
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No more, no less.