The Inventor Behind a Rush of AI Copyright Suits Is Trying to Show His Bot Is Sentient::Stephen Thaler’s series of high-profile copyright cases has made headlines worldwide. He’s done it to demonstrate his AI is capable of independent thought.
What stupid bullshit. There is nothing remotely close to an artificial general intelligence in a large language model. This person is a crackpot fool. There is no way for a LLM to have persistent memory. Everything outside of the model that pre and post processes information is where the smoke and mirrors exist. This just just databases and standard code.
The actual model is just a system of categorization and tensor math. It is complex vector math. That is it. There is nothing else going on inside the model. If you want to modify it, you need to recalculate a bunch of math as it relates to the existing vectors/tensor tables. All of this math is static. It can’t change. It can’t adapt. It can’t plan. It has some surprising features that one might not expect to be embedded in human language alone, but that is all this is. Try offline, open source, AI. Use Oobabooga, get models from Hugging Face, start with something like a Llama2 7B. This is not hard. You do not need a graphics card. There are lots of models that work great on just a CPU. You will need a good amount of RAM for running a really good model. A 7B is like talking to a teenager prone to lying, a 13B is like a 20 year old, a 30B at 8bit quantization is like an inexperienced late twenty-something. A 70B at 4 bit quantization is like a 30yo with a masters degree. A 70B at 4 bits will need around 14+ CPU logical cores, and 64GB of system memory to generate around 2 tokens a second, this is around 1-2 words per second and is about as slow as is practical.
Don’t believe anything you read in bullshit media about AI right now, and ignore the proprietary stalkerware garbage. The open source offline AI world is the future and it is yours to do as you please. Try it! It is fun.
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Yup yup my guy. This is looking like just another ploy for companies and people to be able to patent and copyright everything under the fucking sun.
Anyone here old enough to remember the dot com bubble in the 90’s? Like really remember the hype and insanely bloated overpriced IPOs and all that? This feels exactly the same way.
anyone here old enough to remember the crypto bubble?
Works every time
Sixty percent of the time
Animals are sentient. They cannot own copyrights. Proving the AI is sentient does nothing to make its outputs copyrightable.
The word people should be throwing around is sapience.
Sapience has nothing to do with it either.
“only works created by a human can be copyrighted under United States law, which excludes photographs and artwork created by animals or by machines without human intervention”
- Compendium of U.S. Copyright Office Practices, released on 22 December 2014
Maybe they should be able to though?
Wake me up when it asks what it is and what its doing here and then gets depressed. That will prove it.
So, a otherwise unknown kook is flooding courts all over the world, wasting everyone’s time with frivolous lawsuits insisting that his pet rock AI is councious. Nothing else to see here, I guess.
lmao good luck I guess. Although we should have a swat team or something on standby, just in case it turns out it IS sentient, so that the moment its proven, they can rush in and unplug the horror.
I mean, the day we create actual AI (as opposed to the machine leaning / language model algorithms that lately everyone calls “AI” for some reason), it’ll probably be on accident. Might as well contain and study it if we get the opportunity: next time we might not be so lucky.
