AMA: We are the Google Brain team. We'd love to answer your questions about machine learning.

Long time favorite, first time anything-asker My name is William Hooten, I go by Woody I run the TensorFlow Twitter handle https://www.linkedin.com/in/woodyhooten I regularly strive for Googliness

Given: - Google owns the data flowing through TensorFlow - Tensorflow is open source, so anyone can use it - Data streams used for training sets come from myriad social media networks and other online sources for quantification of human endeavor

Hypothetical: A.I. sentience is provably achieved utilizing, in part, the TensorFlow toolbox in conjunction with some finite set of libraries and data networks

Question: Where does the "it" live, how is ownership of its activities accounted for and transacted, and what rights does it have? Does Google have any contingencies in mind for the proposed-by-its-talent-pool impending Singularity and the likelihood that it will happen partially behind their firewall? How will marketing of such a rapid shift in computational agency be tailored? What would you name her?

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