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>>ssgodd+(OP)
I hope this results in Fair Use being expanded to cover AI training. This is way more important to humanity's future than any single media outlet. If the NYT goes under, a dozen similar outlets can replace them overnight. If we lose AI to stupid IP battles in its infancy, we end up handicapping probably the single most important development in human history just to protect some ancient newspaper. Then another country is going to do it anyway, and still the NYT is going to get eaten.

>>solard+Aj
"probably the single most important development in human history" is the kind of hyperbole you'd only find here. Better than medicine, agriculture, electrification, or music? That point of view simply does not jive with what I see so far from AI. It has had little impact beyond filling the internet with low-effort content.

I feel like the crypto evangelists never got off the hype train. They just picked a new destination. I hope the NYT is compensated for the theft of their IP and hopefully more lawsuits follow.

>>ngetch+1p
I don't think it's hyperbole, in fact I think it's understating things a bit. I believe AGI would just be a tiny step towards long term evolution, which may or may not involve homo sapiens.

Being able to use electricity as a fuel source and code as a genome allows them to evolve in circumstances hostile to biological organisms. Someday they'll probably incorporate organic components too and understand biology and psychology and every other science better than any single human ever could.

It has the potential to be much more than just another primate. Jumpstarted by us, sure, but I hope someday soon they'll take to the stars and send us back postcards.

Shrug. Of course you can disagree. I doubt I'll live long enough to see who turns out right, anyway.

>>solard+sg1
This will never happen. A super intelligent being can just simulate whatever it wants to know about the universe. Going to the stars is a primate / conquest thing.

In the other hand, any new life will just end up facing the same issues carbon life does , competition, viruses, conflicts etc. the universe has likely had an infinity to come up with what it has come up with. I don’t think it’s “stupid”. We’re part of an ecosystem we just can’t see that.