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why are so many people against software patents? why do they think that software patents are the barriers to innovation? what do you guys think?
Are Software Patents Barriers to Innovation?
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Many individuals oppose software patents due to the belief that they hinder innovation by creating barriers for developers. Concerns center around the patent office's inadequate assessment of "obviousness," leading to the approval of patents that should not qualify. A common standard for evaluating patentability involves assessing whether multiple experienced software engineers would independently arrive at the same concept. If a significant majority can replicate the idea, it suggests the concept is obvious and should not be patentable. Additionally, there is a suggestion that copyright might be a more appropriate form of protection for software, as it could avoid some of the pitfalls associated with the patent system.
In my discussions elsewhere, I've noticed a lot of disagreement regarding AI. A question that comes up is, "Is AI hype?" Unfortunately, when this question is asked, the one asking, as far as I can tell, may mean one of three things which can lead to lots of confusion. I'll list them out now for clarity.
1. Can AI do everything a human can do and how close are we to that?
2. Are corporations and governments using the promise of AI to gain more power for themselves?
3. Are AI and transhumans...
I've been experimenting with ChatGPT. Some results are good, some very very bad. I think examples can help expose the properties of this AI. Maybe you can post some of your favorite examples and tell us what they reveal about the properties of this AI.
(I had problems with copy/paste of text and formatting, so I'm posting my examples as screen shots.
That is a promising start. :smile:
But then I provided values V=1, R1=1, R2=2, R3=3 and asked for the value of I. At first, it said...
i am customizing a Linux distro [arch] into love os which I am building to impress my crush. I had an idea to integrate an ai model into the Linux system so it can speak like me but romantically. but I don't know what or how to do. I don't know the basic concept of Linux but yet I am customizing my os purely relying on chat gpt and perplexity. when i ask chat gpt about this it said to fine tune an ai model and integrate to the Linux distro and my friend said for the data to be fed to the ai...
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