* Posts by tychosoft

4 publicly visible posts • joined 1 Mar 2018

How GitHub Copilot could steer Microsoft into a copyright storm

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Re: No Solidarity with A.I.'s run for profit!

Actually, many proprietary software companies were already prohibiting their developers from using resources like stackoverflow toward the end of last decade precisely because they feared snippets of code from there might cross-contaminate and taint the licensing of their own products. Hence, I don't see why these same companies would not similarly fear co-pilot, which does so with even greater ease.

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Liability has already been defined

There is already case law establishing that an AI cannot be an "inventor", in respect to patents, and that the "operator" / provider of the AI's training and output is. This presumes then that the liabilities also follow the same path, and this leads to Microsoft. Furthermore, the damaged party, which is the originator of the training data, may not even be a party to any agreements with github or microsoft.

What's all the C Plus Fuss? Bjarne Stroustrup warns of dangerous future plans for his C++

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Re: Actually, there's more...

they simply iterated their way to an ever taller and more unbalanced ship...

Boring. The phone business has lost the plot and Google is making it worse

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Re: Form factors

Indeed, even a just somewhat thicker/heavier phone with the extra space used for a better battery life seems a win-win to me, too. Of course I also do remember a period when lead slugs were put into telephone handsets because they felt much "cheaper"/"flimsier" to people once the old carbon mike and classic speaker was replaced.