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This is so stupid its exactly what you would expect in congress.

If this was to go through, of course OpenAI and co will be the primary lobbiests to ensure they get to define the filters for such a license.

Also how would you even enforce this. It's absolute nonsense and is a clear indicator that these larger companies realize there is no 'gatekeeping' these AI's, that the democratization of models has demonstrated incredible gains over their own.

Edit : Image during the early days of the internet you needed a license to start a website.

In the later days you needed a license to start a social media site.

Nonsense.

>>bileka+(OP)
> Nonsense.

Give the politicians time: I predict a day will come where you will need a permit to use a compiler and connect the result to the internet.

>>bileka+(OP)
wait they are talking about licenses for giant arrays and for loop interactions? I know I am wildly oversimplifying, but yes that is nonsense.

>>bileka+(OP)
Yeah. Regulation is fine, if thoughtfully done. "Licensing" is ridiculous. We all know the intent - OpenAI gets the first license along with a significant say in who else gets a license. No thanks.

>>ur-wha+q5
All the worst outcomes start with regulation. If something as disruptive as AGI is coming within 20 years, the powers that be will absolutely up their efforts in the war on general computing.

>>bileka+(OP)
It is nonsense, yet a similar thing happened recently with texting

Before Twilio et al, if you wanted to text a lot of your customers automatically, you had to pay thousands of dollars in setup and recurrent fees to rent a shortcode number

But then, with Twilio et al, you don’t need a shortcode anymore

The telcos told the regulators this would create endless spam, so they would regulate it themselves, and created a consortium to “end spam”

Now you are forced to get a license from them, pay a monthly fee, get audited, and they still let pretty much all the spam through, while they also randomly block a certain % of your messages, even if you are fully compliant

>>nico+Jw
they can't even stop robocalls.

>>sumtec+i6
It will probably require restricting GPU sales among other things.

>>sumtec+i6
just rename everything to ML, in fact you could start a company and call it OpenML

>>sumtec+i6
well there was a time not too long ago where cryptography-related code was pretty heavily regulated, too

>>nico+Jw
This is the direct result of the merger of Sprint and T-mobile. They swore up and down to congress they would NOT raise prices on consumers[0]. So instead they turned around and like gangsters would do said to every business in the US sending text messages: "It'd be a real shame if those texts reminders you wanted to send stopped working... Good thing you can instead pay us $40 / month to be sure those messages are delivered."

At the same time At&T and Verizon saying oh snap let's make money on this too and still being pissed about Stir Shaken so to get ahead of it for Texting before Congress forces it on them. This way they can make money on it before it's forced.

[0] https://fortune.com/2019/02/04/t-mobiles-john-legere-promise...

>>DebtDe+Ss
Problem is that regulation is rarely thoughtfully done. It's almost always a knee jerk response to the new thing.

>>itroni+MI1
hehe, I was thinking "Loops With Rules".