Farhad Manjoo begins his NYT column today with:
“I’ve got 99 problems with A.I., but intellectual property ain’t one.”
He conflates learning by LLMs with learning by human beings. This is wrong on at least a couple of levels (see subsequent posts).
If you read his column, and are in a position to contact him directly, it might be worth your while to try to educate him.
In his column he likens training LLMs to what humans do when learning from others. But LLMs, whatever they do, do not integrate and synthesize ideas from their teachers to express them and develop them further in their own words.
Moreover he completely misses the point that what LLM have done when acquiring their training sets is wholesale theft of others’ intellectual property. By no stretch of the imagination could it be considered “fair use”.
@dave_aitel
It goes deeper than that.
While contemplating my reply, Descartes came to mind:
“Cogito. Ergo sum.”
There is something ineffable and unique to make a sentient being.
😁
Hippasus500 aka jwn2
Dave Aitel