Comment Re: Standing on the shoulders of giants (Score 1) 47
we do know pretty well how "copying" and "reproducing" works and it's definitely not that.
Unfortunately we don't really. The standard for what is a derivative work is substantial recognizable elements. It doesn't specify exactly how you get there.
otoh the process of creating these models has been universally called "training" and "learning" for a while, and that's because there is a obvious conceptual similarity with these human processes, even though we do not know exactly how neurons go about it
I'm not trying to convince anyone to change their terminology, but the aptness of the term is all on the conceptual side.