• Peanut
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    1 year ago

    couple decent thoughts. That the real issue is more economic than technological is the reality that’s good to focus on.

    Others just really display how little they know about both the issue and the technology.

    “That AI is conceived and enabled by brilliant, ambitious, but immature men” was a bit of a funny line, because I’m wondering how you could defend that statement among minds like Melanie Mitchell. I mean, many of my favorites in the field are anything but “immature” In any way.

    Some complain about the Canadian standards of disregarding copyright for educational purposes. I’ve always thought that was something that shows great humanity in the face of a system fueled by greed.

    Remember when copyright only lasted a couple decades, and virtually everything else existed in public domain? We used to have these weird ideas like thinking about the betterment of the general public or educational systems were important for some reason.

    All of the complaints are extremely unspecific. Do they care about open source vs corporate? Do they even understand the basic concept of how these things work?

    Does our economic system need to be fixed? Yes. Are we going to get there by crying about the terror of the “soullessness” of machines and education? I doubt it.