Millions unknowingly helped Google create AI drone-targeting technology

Google is using sensor-based observations from multiple agents in an environment, such as drones, to estimate the position and/or orientation of an object. 
It has been uncovered that millions of workers in the so-called gig economy unknowingly helped Google assist the Pentagon in creating AI technology to be used in a controversial drone-targeting project.

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