It's convenient to refer to the training of the machine as learning but let's not lose sight of the fact that "machine learning" is not at all the same thing as

It's convenient to refer to the training of the machine as learning but let's not lose sight of the fact that "machine learning" is not at all the same thing as people "learning". Pretending they mean the same thing in this context, in my opinion, is dishonest. I also take issue with the assumption that AI will "benefit everyone enormously, even if it won't be equally distributed"; I don't see any factual basis for this assumption. On the contrary, it seems much more likely that AI will be used to concentrate wealth even further. Given the high cost, I find it hard to believe it will ever by "equally distributed". For as long as I can remember big corporations have been merciless in their preservation of "intellectual property". I didn't love it then and I don't love it now. OTOH, the idea that Microsoft can train their LLM on code I've written and then sell access to that LLM for money (sharing no dollars with me) strikes me as outright theft.