Stefan Mileschin

Hides anti-Google ranters pro-Facebook bias

Apple’s favourite newspaper, the New York Times, has published anti-Google rants from those who represent Facebook.

While it looked like a rant from billionaire Peter Thiel might have appeared an amusing read, the Times failed to mention that he sits on the board of Facebook, one of Google's most significant competitors.

Thiel first blasted Google as "treasonous" saying that the FBI and CIA should investigate the company for working with the Chinese government. The tech investor asked if Chinese spies had infiltrated Google without actually standing up the claim.

Thiel has now followed up his anti-Google remarks in a new piece for the Times praising President Donald Trump and railing against "globalisation".

Thiel's argument is that anyone helping China to develop artificial intelligence technologies is assisting China's military because he says, all AI is all about military applications.

He said that people should “forget the sci-fi fantasy; what is powerful about actually existing A.I. is its application to relatively mundane tasks like computer vision and data analysis. Though less uncanny than Frankenstein's monster, these tools are nevertheless valuable to any army -- to gain an intelligence advantage to penetrate defences in the new theatre of cyberwarfare, where we are already living amid the equivalent of a multinational shooting war".

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