Years ago, Google had been committed to not developing AI for surveillance. This wording has now disappeared from the AI principles. Investors are disappointed for another reason.
Google has said goodbye to the promise not to develop artificial intelligence for weapons. The Internet giant updated the principles for its AI activities, in the new version the self-obligation made in 2018 no longer contain.
As a reason for the new edition, it was said in a blog entry that the technology has changed quickly since 2018. The entry did not specifically respond to the resolutions that are no longer mentioned.
Only general explanation of Ki
In the new principles, it is generally that the AI is to be reconciled with “broadly accepted principles of international law and human rights”. In contrast, in 2018 it was mentioned separately that Google would not develop AI that could serve to surveillance that violates internationally recognized norms.
Also, you will not work on technologies that could generally be harmful. According to internal resistance in the company, the principles of 2018 had been adopted against working on a drone program of the US military.
Investors disappointed despite profit plus
On Tuesday evening, the Google mother Group Alphabet disappointed investors with its numbers for the past quarter. After the presentation of the quarterly figures on Tuesday, the share price fell by more than seven percent.
The reason: Despite an increase of 30 percent to $ 11.95 billion, Google's cloud business earned a little less than analysts expected. They had expected an average of around $ 12.2 billion. Group sales also missed the market expectations with an increase of twelve percent to $ 96.47 billion.
Meanwhile, profit rose by a good 28 percent to $ 26.54 billion in the year. Google's advertising business continues to generate most of the alphabet revenue. It grew by 10.6 percent to $ 72.46 billion. The video platform YouTube earned almost 10.5 billion of them – around 14 percent more than a year ago.
Growth driver USPresidential election
According to Google, a growth driver was the expenditure on advertising for the US presidential election in November. On election day itself, 45 million users in the USA had watched videos on YouTube.
The development of Google's advertising business is observed very closely. One central question is whether the attempts by competitors to display direct answers instead of links with the help of artificial intelligence could have a negative impact on Google's search engine.
Google relies on AI search
In this situation, Google tries to prepare its own search results with artificial intelligence without torpedoing the traditional business model. Because ads in the area of web search play a central role for the group.
Google primarily uses AI summary of search results that are intended to answer questions from users. This function is used more, said Google boss Sundar Pichai.
Billions for AI data centers
In the current year, Alphabet plans to invest around $ 75 billion in the expansion of the infrastructure. A large part of it is likely to be spent in data centers for software with artificial intelligence.
In the so -called “other bets” – future projects such as self -driving cars or delivery drones – the quarterly turnover of all companies dropped from $ 400 million within a year. Meanwhile, the operational loss of the area grew to $ 1.17 billion of around $ 863 million a year ago.
