✨ Nora Tindall  🪐

You are literally comparing a human's ability to learn from past experience with the kind of AI technology used in GitHub Copilot. I really didn't know we already lived in a science-fiction novel! It's going to take decades of new improvements before it comes any close

Well, read a little about GPT-3 I'm not comparing humans to machines, I'm just saying that both learning processes can be compared, precisely because machine learning was inspired by the human learning process

@awakecoding I'm going to take a different approach trying to explain to you how I see this. Consider the following example (as I've said, this is ALREADY happening): we get the GPT-3 transformer and train a neural network to write movie scripts. To specialize our (+)

To specialize the GPT-3 network in our domain we're going to use thousands of movie scripts. We're using movies from Disney, Terminator, Start Wars. A lot of licensed movies (this is already happening, as I've said) After training our network, it generates a movie script (+)

I understand it is already happening and we can't stop it, but this will fundamentally affect how copyright law works, and not by choice. This will be a one-sided push for things like GitHub Copilot by Big Tech until people accept this as not being copyright infringement

This is very similar to the taxi industry being disrupted by Uber years ago: we can agree it is a better model, but traditional taxi drivers who paid big money for their license were sacrificed in the process. Laws were changed by the force of things, not by "choice"

If all of sudden all source code made publicly available can be used to train AI code assistant tools with complete disregard for the license, this will fundamentally change how OSS is developed: the only way to protect your code will be to make it private

I don't completely agree with you on that point. Not all open-source developers care about that. Some developers try to protect their code with a strict license, but some of them don't. As a open-source dev myself, I'm one of those who don't care about it