Tag: Software
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An end to copyright?
I suspect that AI generated content is (eventually, not any of the current versions) going to destroy copyright as a concept. The generally-stated reason for copyright is to incentivise the creation of more works: artificial scarcity, which drives up prices, introduced around the time the printing press was invented (but the idea goes back much…
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Speed of machine intelligence
Every so often, someone tries to boast of human intelligence with the story of Shakuntala Devi — the stories vary, but they generally claim she beat the fastest supercomputer in the world in a feat of arithmetic, finding that the 23rd root of 916,748,676,920,039,158,098, 660,927,585,380,162,483,106, 680,144,308,622,407,126,516, 427,934,657,040,867,096,593, 279,205,767,480,806,790,022, 783,016,354,924,852,380,335, 745,316,935,111,903,596,577, 547,340,075,681,688,305,620, 821,016,129,132,845,564,805, 780, 158,806,771 was…