[ycmbntrthrwaway]

If we cannot find better applications for so-called AI than bullshit like sorting photo albums and military applications, maybe we should not do it at all?

I am still sure there are enough industrial, medical and civil applications for Google to work on, no need to resort to "photo albums" immediately.

[melling]

That’s sort of an academic answer. Perhaps Google should go straight for creating the Singularity?

Business works by creating a product that someone will pay for. Then they reinvest those profits, grow the company, etc to improve that product.

Maybe we’ll eventually get the robotic butler that consumers will pay for, but in the meantime the Apple II robotic/AI revolution has been a little slow to materialize.

[simion314]

But as an employee why should I like what the management wants, I think is your duty to speak if you consider that management does something bad and resign if you don't want to participate. My goal is not to make money for my boss/company, I personally get satisfaction when our customers are happy. If Google management does not like developers with this kind of ideals they should say it in their recruitment announcement that you should be OK with working with the military and spy agencies.

[zethraeus]

they do photo albums.