Microsoft It Will Sell Pentagon Advanced Technology

[Little Star]

Microsoft said Friday that it would sell the military and intelligence agencies whatever advanced technologies they needed “to build a strong defense,” just months after Google told the Pentagon it would refuse to provide artificial intelligence products that could build more accurate drones or compete with China for next-generation weapons.

The announcement, made quietly in a small, town-hall-style meeting with the software giant’s leadership on Thursday, then planned to be published on a blog Friday afternoon, underscores the radically different paths these leading American technology firms are taking as they struggle with their role in creating a new generation of cyberweapons to help, and perhaps someday replace, American warriors.


https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/26/us/politics/ai-microsoft-pentagon.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage

[Doodley]

1. About time the drone department used Microsoft Office!

[dalton99a]

4. +1

[awesomerwb1]

2. "Advanced Technology"??

Microsoft??

[MyNameGoesHere]

3. Advanced technology

Isn't defined by what people tweet on.

[awesomerwb1]

5. Ok cool (?)

[lpbk2713]

6. A new version of Minesweeper.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

7. yeah, putin needs more botnets in the pentagon

If not for our tax dollars, the world's worst software maker would have disappeared the day smartphones passed PCs for accessing the Internet.