"It's death by a thousand small cuts for authors and content creators."

This is a replay of the debate held about player pianos over a hundred years ago.

Yes. This scenario is possible.

The biggest win for AI companies is the ruling that AI is "highly transformative". If that holds then there's no ambiguity regarding "derivative works" vs "transformative works" and that means that we can use source code or movies generated by AI without being worried that the original authors of the works the AI was trained on will come and get us for copyright infringement.

I generally agree with this stance, but am a bit worried about when AI "memorizes". For example it could dump out a verbatim implementation of TimSort that was "derivative" or the original code. But this ruling strengthens the "transformative" interpretation.

As for "fair use".. yeah.. it's obvious that if you read something you don't have to pay every time you read it or any time you recall it. As long as you obtained the material legally, you should be allowed to learn from it. If this didn't hold we'd all be in trouble.

Marketing folks are the bane of technical products.

I remember when they started calling everything Java at Sun..

If you name everything the same thing then it stops meaning anything.

This is not a problem with Facial recognition but rather a problem with how it is used.

Facial recognition gives you some "best matches" and then the user is supposed to look at the photos and decide if this is the same person or not.
(Systems used for police say "this doesn't constitute probable cause")

But users can be lazy and let the machine do the thinking for them. That's on the user, not the tech.

They produce an answer that you requested.
If you don't want what it produces, you'll eventually stop asking it things.

I'm with LInus on this one. . He says let's wait 10 years and see where this thing goes before we start making claims about people losing their jobs.

The difference is that presumably AI is productive compute. While 99.99% of bitcoin compute is guessing numbers. Its purposefully unproductive.

The US University system effectively exports education to the world. Google tells me that there where 1.1 million foreign university students in the US.

So if you scare them away, you're losing 1.1 million "exports". At a tune of $30k - $40k a year, that's a minimum of $33B in lost exports for the US.

So economically it's a net negative for the country.
It's also one more way the US is creating bad will with the rest of the world. No country can thrive by itself. Keep pushing and other countries will make deals with "friendlier" countries. This could mean that other countries get free trade at the exclusion of the US, or that China's and Russia's political influence increase around the world while the US loses it.

Previous administrations understood the value of "soft diplomacy" which allowed the country to gain allies without having to resort to expensive force tactics. The present administration thinks a bit too much of themselves (as many Americans do) and don't realize that the world is an interconnected system that mostly the US benefits from.

Or because the history department didn't have a budget for that many photocopies?

It's a stupid essay based exam where you give long winded answers.

They'd use a blue book presumably to avoid copying?

Not sure why just printing out the exam with space to fill in the answers doesn't work. But someone had to sell some little notebooks for exams.

Sorry but with all the pressures of college, if the homework wasn't graded I'd fold.
Homework is the only reason I did my Master's degree.. I could have watched a bunch of Youtube videos explaining everything. But I need to chase that grade to get the discipline and persistence to get though a decent homework exercise. Especially with life pressures.
Too easy to "cheat" by not doing it and then not learning.

Graded homework provides a structure were people like me can succeed.

That's an interesting statement to say on this website.

You mean to say that all that time in university during CS classes my time was being wasted by doing all those programming projects, that if instead I had just paid attention to the professor and read the book I would know how to implement a virtual memory system for my own OS, or be able to balance an AVL tree.

I guess learning by doing is not a thing. Or do you suggest we spend the 10 hours IN class programming ? Or no programming at all?

Also: all that time I spent working out proof on my own, or trying to solve physics and math problems was just all a big waste of time?

You must be a High School student. Your statement is patently ludicrous. Most Computer Science courses teach by DOING.. and most of the DOING is homework.

Your "research" is hogwash. And anyone that has learned the field, or attempted to teach it knows that.
Homework is the key to learning how to program. (whether it's assigned by the professor or whether you self-assign)

Article makes no sense.

First says he doesn't accept donations.

Then he talks about sponsorship.

So does he take money or not?

My nephew just got the obsolete Whooping Cough (aka Pertusis).

Yup. He was vaccinated, so where we all (I recently got a booster because I saw the writing on the wall).

It's INSANE that kids these days are getting these obsolete diseases. Because some parents have failed to vaccinate their kids, there are now outbreaks of these terrible diseases.

They may not hurt you individually, but if enough people get them, the consequences can be dire. My elderly mother was exposed, for example (though her immunity system seemed to be able to hold it off).

What's next? A sequel to the Polio epidemic?

No thanks.

While I sympathize with the message that this poll is showing. The article says "75% of those who CHOSE to fill out the poll". Meaning there's selection bias.

I'm surprised Nature is using an unscientific method of polling to promote their opinion about the situation, regardless of the merit of their opinion on the matter.