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FILE PHOTO: Silhouettes of mobile device users are seen next to a screen projection of Youtube logo in this picture illustration taken March 28, 2018. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/File Photo

To answer critics, YouTube tries a new metric: Responsibility

The changes are supposed to reward videos that are more palatable to advertisers and the broader public, and help YouTube ward off criticism that its service is addictive and socially corrosive.
The company spent years chasing one business goal above others: “Engagement,” a measure of the views, time spent and interactions with online videos.

YouTube executives ignored warnings, letting toxic videos run rampant

YouTube’s problem is that it allows the nonsense to flourish. And, in some cases, through its powerful artificial intelligence system, it even provides the fuel that lets it spread.
Amnesty International activists hold a giant dragonfly-shaped balloon with a banner reading

Google workers sign letter seeking end to China search engine project

Project Dragonfly, as the initiative is known, would enable state surveillance at a time when the Chinese government is expanding controls over the population, according to the letter signed by at least 10 workers,.
Google pulled its servers from mainland China in 2010 over concerns with government censorship

Sundar Pichai tells staff Google’s China plans are exploratory and in early stages

Reports surfaced two weeks ago that Google was developing a project, called Dragonfly, to launch a mobile search app that would censor results in compliance with the Chinese government.
GitHub is a key asset for Microsoft in appealing to developers in the competitive cloud computing market.

Google reveals it wanted to acquire Github, lost to Microsoft

Google’s head of the cloud arm, Diane Greene said that the company was also in the running to buy GitHub.
Google coders weren’t persuaded their employer should be using its technological might to help the government wage war.

Google engineers refused to build security tool to win military contracts

The act of rebellion ricocheted around the company, fueling a growing resistance among employees with a dim view of Google’s yen for multi-million-dollar government contracts.
What impressed medical experts most was Google’s ability to sift through data previously out of reach: notes buried in PDFs or scribbled on old charts.

Google is training machines to predict when a patient will die

Google had created a tool that could forecast a host of patient outcomes, including how long people may stay in hospitals, their odds of re-admission and chances they will soon die.
Google Duplex demo at I/O conference impressed developers, but mortified others who criticised Google for presenting an artificially intelligent bot that posed as human.

Google Duplex AI to warn people that call are being recorded

Duplex is an extension of the company’s voice-based digital assistant that automatically phones local businesses and speaks with workers there to book appointments.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai addresses the keynote at Google I/O 2018.

Google I/O 2018: Google Maps gets personalised features

Google Maps has been updated with new features which will give more personalised suggestions to users like places to visit or things to do.
Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google speaks during the Google I/O Developers Conference in Mountain View.

Google I/O 2018: Gboard supports morse code for text predictions, suggestions

Google highlighted the use of artificial intelligence in products for health care at its I/O 2018 conference which began today.

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