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If you train a meat-based intelligence by having it borrow a book from a library without any sort of permission, license, or needing a lawyer specialised in int

If you train a meat-based intelligence by having it borrow a book from a library without any sort of permission, license, or needing a lawyer specialised in intellectual property, we call that good parenting and applaud it. If you train a silicon-based intelligence by having it read the same books with the same lack of permission and license, it's a blatant violation of intellectual property law and apparently needs to be punished with armies of lawyers doing battle in the courts. Picture one of Asimov's robots. Would a robot be banned from picking up a book, flipping it open with its dexterous metal hands, and reading it? What about a cyborg intelligence, the type Elon is trying to build with Neuralink? Would humans with AI implants need licenses to read books, even if physically standing in a library and holding the book in their mostly meat hands? Okay, maybe you agree that robots and cyborgs are allowed to visit a library! Why the prejudice against disembodied AIs? Why must they have a blank spot in the vast matrices of their minds?

xigoi 1y ago
> If you train a meat-based intelligence by having it borrow a book from a library without any sort of permission, license, or needing a lawyer specialised in intellectual property, we call that good parenting and applaud it. If you’re selling your child as a tool to millions of people, I would certainly not call that good parenting.
- jiggawatts 1y ago
  "Child actor" is a job where the result of the neural net training is sold to millions of people by the parents. To play the Devil's Advocate against my own argument: The government collects income taxes on neural nets trained using government-funded schools and public libraries. Seeing as how capitalists are positively salivating at the opportunity to replace pesky meat employees with uncomplaining silicon ones, perhaps a nice high maximum-marginal-rate tax on all AI usage might be the first big step towards UBI and then the Star Trek utopia we all dream of. Just kidding. It'll be a cyberpunk dystopia. You know it will.
  - almosthere 1y ago
    "Child Actors" are more an exception. You can train a million children on the books of harry potter, only 3 or 4 will be good enough to be actors. The children that "made it" did so from grit and passion (or other traits) but very little from that reading of 10-20 books. The AI that reads the books, and can do what LLMs do, are guaranteed to sold for billions in API calls.
- TeMPOraL 1y ago
  What about a company funding books and education materials to train its employees into specialists, and then selling access to them to other businesses? E.g. any honest consulting company.

xigoi 1y ago

> If you train a meat-based intelligence by having it borrow a book from a library without any sort of permission, license, or needing a lawyer specialised in intellectual property, we call that good parenting and applaud it. If you’re selling your child as a tool to millions of people, I would certainly not call that good parenting.

jiggawatts 1y ago
"Child actor" is a job where the result of the neural net training is sold to millions of people by the parents. To play the Devil's Advocate against my own argument: The government collects income taxes on neural nets trained using government-funded schools and public libraries. Seeing as how capitalists are positively salivating at the opportunity to replace pesky meat employees with uncomplaining silicon ones, perhaps a nice high maximum-marginal-rate tax on all AI usage might be the first big step towards UBI and then the Star Trek utopia we all dream of. Just kidding. It'll be a cyberpunk dystopia. You know it will.
- almosthere 1y ago
  "Child Actors" are more an exception. You can train a million children on the books of harry potter, only 3 or 4 will be good enough to be actors. The children that "made it" did so from grit and passion (or other traits) but very little from that reading of 10-20 books. The AI that reads the books, and can do what LLMs do, are guaranteed to sold for billions in API calls.
TeMPOraL 1y ago
What about a company funding books and education materials to train its employees into specialists, and then selling access to them to other businesses? E.g. any honest consulting company.