Metcalfe’s Law of IT growth begins with the fact that one fax machine — for example — is useless. Two help a bit but millions of them made a difference.
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Not only isn’t there a huge commercial market for digital plagiarism by chatbots, they are attracting huge copyright lawsuits instead.
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Mead never saw technology research as a left-brained thing; for him, he says, it is a matter of love. It only sounds simple afterward.
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What if a private craft is the first to discover extraterrestrial life? What laws apply?
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As developers ponder how to produce graphene in large quantities, trend watchers wonder whether Silicon Valley will one day be Graphene Valley.
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The report discusses long-term health risks and malpractice issues, demonstrating how the conjoining of big profits and radical ideology is a toxic mix.
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For example, the baseball player with the highest batting average in any season generally does not do as well the season before or the season after.
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The platform continues to grow — and may be evolving into a new type of medium — but first it must survive massive industry hostility.
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The judge ruled that Google operates unlawfully: It effectively excludes competitors while its prices and services are unresponsive to consumer market demands.
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Some think that continued progress toward human-like thinking is inevitable but that’s becoming more a matter of faith than technology.
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Gary Marcus argues that Big Tech got rich, largely on promises, without confronting the known limits of artificial intelligence.
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Two things we can be sure of: Things that can’t go on forever won’t. And even artificial intelligence can’t make hype into reality.
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The current, widely-favored 60/40 strategy has little or nothing to recommend it beyond the fact that it is what everyone else is doing.
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Saving effort in the short term by running these risks is a decision that should be made with full knowledge of how near-term decisions affect long-term risks.
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How serious the current downturn will be, they say, depends on how long the current AI bubble lasts. Winter always comes, just not when many of us expect it.
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The paleoartists’ copyright dilemma is one element of the general problem of how to compensate original creators when work is repurposed in AI-generated output.
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A few Big Tech players control the chatbot market. Could bargaining with them for something like Public Lending Right resolve the writers’ issues?
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AI companies could be required to record images’ origin and compensate copyright holders. But as Robert J. Marks notes, end users might then have to pay.
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One problem is that the people at the big conference may not be the ones closest to the scene, doing the actual work.
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English argues that science research, which is already mostly paid for by taxpayers, should be open access so more of us can see what’s happening.
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