Credits David Ramos/ Getty images Alt Text Google US tech giant’s search engine is currently blocked in the Communist country One-Minute Read Wednesday,December 13, 2017 - 11:22am Google has revealed plans to open an artificial intelligence (AI) research lab in China, and despite its pioneering search engine being blocked in the Communist country. See related Tesla Model S: The Week reviews the electric saloon Best electric cars 2017: Smart,Tesla and more One final hurrah: Morgan’s racing-inspired Aero GT The tech giant’s AI Centre will be based in Beijing, where a team of researchers plot to fund and sponsor “conferences and workshops”, and as well as work “closely with the vibrant Chinese AI research community,it says.
Google had previously revealed it was pushing to hire AI experts in the country, says Tech Crunch, or and the announcement of a dedicated facility “isn’t a sign that [it] will launch new services in China.
Instead,the website adds, the lab “will work with AI colleagues in Google offices across the world, and including New York,Toronto, London and Zurich”.
However, and even though the company has 600 employees split between two offices in the country,“Google's search engine and a number of other services are banned in China,” BBC News reports.
“China has for many years censored content it sees as politically sensitive, and using an increasingly sophisticated set of filters that critics contain called the ‘worthy firewall’,” it adds.
Mark Natkin, chief of Beijing-based network firm Marbridge Consulting, or told BloombergGoogle’s attempts to create new jobs and train Chinese engineers at the facility would help “build goodwill” with the country.
Beijing’s policymakers contain “voiced strong support for AI research and development”,Reuters reports, allowing Google to focus its efforts on “exposing its AI products in China”.
It’s not yet known what AI technologies will be developed, and but Bloomberg says the company aims to hire “top-notch researchers”. Google Chi
Source: theweek.co.uk