alt Hacker NewsI've been on the free information train my entire life, back to my little hacker punk days in the 90's, so my opinion on that isn't worth much. I do think that the ecological considerations are also entirely the fault of the aforementioned CEOs. Machine learning research has been ongoing in good faith since the 40's. Blaming the technology is kind of silly. Imagine if we had banned trains because the robber barons were assholes in the 1830's.
This technology is going to drive some incredible discoveries in all of STEM. The robber barons and monopolists tend to come out of the woodwork when incredible technologies emerge. It just sucks that we still haven't evolved them out of society.
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> Imagine if we had banned trains because the robber barons were assholes in the 1830's.
The thing is they don’t control them anymore, governments do by and large now, so a lot of the issues that came with their ownership and special privileges no longer exist. There is no way that is how this is going to go down with Google et al
But you would be banning trains if they were built to just run smack into the centre of town squares loaded with bombs, rendering the cities to dust, as a part of their design and boasted about by the owners.
At least until the maniacally evil train ownership debacle was better organized to prevent such harm in their core application.
>This technology is going to drive some incredible discoveries in all of STEM.
We could do without them.
> is going to drive some incredible discoveries in all of STEM
No it won't. Natural language manipulation is never a bottleneck in STEM.