RE: Hey Google! Who Should the US Government Kill Today?
Yeah.. But who is actually surprised?
I'm more surprised at the fact that Project Maven leaked to the press than something along the lines of corporate-military industrial complex is investing in machine learning for warfare applications...
It might seem strange at first, but one really looks at the history, actually it is these huge megacorps who do a lot of the grunt work and research work for the military industrial complex... Even Chomsky tells us about the MIT-MIC Pentagon research gigs, but even that is just scratching the surface...
So now big Universities, big Corporations and big Government are working on Big Data together...
Google will make it happen. The Robotic Revolution / 4th Industrial Revolution Is a Go, and has been a long, long time coming.
They monopolized basically everything of interest in the world and can dangle it in front of the world's best minds...
Our only hope now is that through decentralization and all of this block-chain technology we might be able to re divert interests, reallocate resources, realign incentives, and slowly but surely start digging away and eroding the centralized power of the corporatocracy...
You're right, DARPA was always the military pit farming out private contracts