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Quick off the mark eh? When was this idea published by those researchers, two days ago? No wonder universities are getting super serious about IP protection/li
by anjc 11y ago
Quick off the mark eh? When was this idea published by those researchers, two days ago?
No wonder universities are getting super serious about IP protection/licensing/commercialisation
- dr_zoidberg 11y agoarxiv says it was submitted 26 Aug, so about a week ago. Near the end of the paper they explain how to implement it, so I guess it was a matter of reading the paper and sitting with caffe to toy/hack an implementation -- most of the heavy work was "already done". Edited some typos.
- gwern 11y agoI'm sure they're trying to patent it. (eg DeepMind has been patenting everything they can, even stuff like dropout and deep q-learning!) Which raises an interesting question: Instapainting is a commercial service and this is targeted at customers: > After your artwork is generated, you are free to use it for any purpose. Upload it to Instapainting.com as an order and an artist will physically hand-paint it! So how does that interact with the patent application? Are they liable for damages once the patents go through or do they just have to take it down?
- chrischen 11y agoWell that line is more like an advertisement for Instapainting. Instapainting doesn't run on this technology. That being said, a human artist can do a much better job than these algorithms!
- danieldk 11y agoInstapainting doesn't run on this technology. Aren't most convnets trained using dropout these days? Edit: it seems the implementation that this site uses does as well: https://github.com/kaishengtai/neuralart/blob/master/models/inception.lua#L75 https://github.com/kaishengtai/neuralart/blob/master/models/... Patents need to go :(.
- nekopa 11y agoWow, I need more coffee, I read your sentence as: Aren't most convicts trained as dropouts these days? Thought he was contracting out prisoners to paint for him...
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- duaneb 11y ago> No wonder universities are getting super serious about IP protection/licensing/commercialisation oh god, the knowledge might be free with only attribution and no revenue! the horror!
- anjc 11y agoEh how do you incentivise the creation of this knowledge given that it costs money to do?
- duaneb 11y agoThe kids who know what's up will know where to do the research. That should be incentive enough. Considering you can't stop another organization from building on your research, the "competition" is a little hard to explain. A university should be run like a school, not a business.
- anjc 11y agoYou should look up the financial statements for one of your local colleges and see if it can't be run like a business. Just one of them costs a lot of money to keep going.. That's why they have to protect IP and commercialise it. Because if they don't, the colleges can't keep teaching as it all costs so much.
- sudhirj 11y agoSeriously quick. I thought I'd take a stab at it and asked what the license was for the reference implementation. Haven't even check the answer yet :-/
- chrischen 11y agoThe implementation that's currently running is MIT licensed.