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While there's an inherent conflict between copyright warrior corporations disrespecting the licenses of FOSS work, AI tooling will be an unprecedented boon for
by pessimizer 4y ago
While there's an inherent conflict between copyright warrior corporations disrespecting the licenses of FOSS work, AI tooling will be an unprecedented boon for FOSS productivity. It's like giving every lonely cowboy developer a bunch of very skilled interns.
- daydream 4y agoThat’s a very interesting point I had not thought about. Let’s say AI tooling results in an across-the-board 2x multiplier for FOSS. Like there is twice as much FOSS. Plus the FOSS that exists today has twice the features plus overall quality. What happens then? Maybe long-term the main skill in software development is less about writing new code and more about architecting systems. And also using AI to glue components together and debug. Main difference if there’s way more FOSS there’s less need to write new greenfield modules. I don’t know. I’m spitballing here. It’s fascinating to think about.
- melagonster 4y agoit is a problem that whether AI generate a code under copyright. but FOSS developer don't need to worry about this.
- flangola7 4y agoGPT-4 can reverse engineer binary assembly code. Everything that runs locally will soon be de facto OSS.
- Robotbeat 4y agoThat’s awesome. Have you seen this demonstrated? I suspect companies will fight this with a kind of runtime encryption.
- remexre 4y agoYou said in another thread it's in "the Microsoft paper" -- could you point me at which one you were referring to? I didn't see it in https://cdn.openai.com/papers/gpt-4.pdf https://cdn.openai.com/papers/gpt-4.pdf , but it's possible that I missed it.