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I used to do presentations at educational technology conferences and many (30+)years ago I speculated that "in the future" computers that could create would be
by RRWagner 11mo ago
I used to do presentations at educational technology conferences and many (30+)years ago I speculated that "in the future" computers that could create would be licensed. This was based on the observation that every significant past technology under user control was eventually licensed for permission to operate - radio, television, cars, the list is long.
- PunchyHamster 11mo agoyou need better examples than radio/tv/cars radio/tv share the bands which are very narrow resource so licensing pretty much have to exist else there would be interference abound (imagine competing TV station just driving around with a jammer on competition cars have that + the fact infrastructure is built by public money. Allowing anyone on anything with no training there literally costs lives Or, copyright wise, to earn money in before digital world you kinda had to not have too much of copyright infringement - while artist today might get popular enough to subside on patreon/other form of digital tips, before it wouldn't be possible
- Spivak 11mo agoThis doesn't really disagree with the parent's thesis. You're just giving the long explanation for each event. Any significant technological advancement necessarily uses some shared public resource which will drive people to regulate it. For AI folks are trying to get a lot of random things to stick: the power grid, water usage, public safety, disinformation.