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Comment Artificial intelligence DeepMind/Google ethics boa (Score 1) 480

Hello mister Stallman, I really appreciate the rules that you have set up for free software, notably by the GPL, that enable us to enjoy the use of non-proprietary software everyday. My question is about what I think is an emerging new dimension in software power, impact on society, and licencing. Concerning the recent acquisition of the very secretive artificial intelligence company Deepmind by Google, I read that DeepMind required that Google create a joint Google / DeepMind ethics board as a condition of the deal, which would create rules for what Google could do with the technology. It seems to me that most artificial intelligence software today (Siri, Cyc, Watson, DeepMind, ...) are proprietary software, even if they massively use free resources like Wikipedia. Do you feel concerned by the ethics of possible artificial intelligence software usage? Given the possible dangers of this kind of software (see Kurzweil's Singularity) and the fear it inspires to most people (see most of the science fiction literature - except Asimov), do you feel the need for a new kind of licencing for this kind of software? (Sorry for my mistakes in English, I'm not a native speaker)
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I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "Donald Knuth is planning to make an 'earthshaking announcement' on Wednesday, at TeX's 32nd Anniversary Celebration, on the final day of the TUG 2010 Conference. Unfortunately, nobody seems to know what it is. So far speculation ranges from proving P!=NP, to a new volume of The Art of Computer Programming, to his retirement. Maybe Duke Nukem Forever has been ported to MMIX?" Let the speculation begin.

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