[creo]

Off-topic: 2008 ... everyone was using G product (in my env at least). Imagine saying back then "10 years from now Google will provide military with artificial intelligence".

[astura]

Only surprising to people who are ignorant of history, the entirety of Silicon Valley was built on the back of military funding.

http://www.businessinsider.com/the-us-military-is-responsibl...

https://steveblank.com/secret-history/

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/the_next_silicon_va...

[acct1771]

They've been assisting with govt/.MIL intelligence tech forever.

The artificial part is just the nature progression of such.

[dekhn]

This was an obvious outcome to me. I'm a Googler, previously worked for a national lab (non confidential, but the military was free to use our free software products), and I always expected that one of the end games of a US company with advanced ML would be selling it to the US government.