separating recycled bottles and cans. this robot is able to grab an object, squeeze it a little bit to figure out what material it s made up. and it decides it s made of metal, plastic or paper and it recycled it automatically. this is extraordinary because recycling is such a terrible job. we hope to offer people working in the recycling injury to operate the robots from a distance. maria: but artificial intelligence is only as effective as the information it is given. if there is bias in the data, the result will reflect it. the results were mixed on the
and board member. he joins me. the crux of the argument is that the crown jewel of google s r & d effort are the artificial intelligence technology, and this ai means a lot of different things. it could be used in a lot of different ways but it clearly has a lot of military applications for processing satellite images, helping create process data, automating drone warfare, cyber warfare all these ways at ai is a dual use thing, like nuclear technology has both military and civilian uses. there was a project contract that google was a part of, where it was supplying this ai february noology to the u.s. military. it pulled out from that as a result of employee protests, inside google. at the same time, google has it s a major ai research lab in china, where even though it s
party state and so things are sort of fused. it s not like the u.s. where you have different companies and different people, and you have a government sector and a private sector and these things don t always coordinate or work together. in china these things are still tightly coordinated across-the-board. what s actually happening is machine learning, artificial intelligence, and that is much more mundane, much more things like helping process satellite images, helping with the cyber warfare, things like that, and that s a social credit scoring system in china where you use computers to track people and control the society more as sort of a police state version, there s a military version. all sorts of different applications of this and in that sense ai is just you should think of it as just the cutting edge of the computer revolution today. it s sort of the most advanced computer red that we re doing. maria: tell me how this came about where google decided to walk away from the u.s.