The story doesn’t end with monetary compensation, of course. In addition to profits, it’s also important to share the governance of AI technologies with data laborers. With shared governance, we can likely make much more progress on key AI challenges such as privacy, sustainability, and even performance.
I wonder how long it will be until congress starts introducing federal AI regulatory bills. At the state level, there has already been bills introduced to promote AI safety.
Many repositories of public code are available under strict open-source licenses that control the use of the code in downstream applications. And indeed, open-source licenses such as GPL may make it more difficult to use tools like Copilot to generate code for many purposes.
Based on the Washington Post article, it seems as if AI software programmers don't care about copyright and licenses.
This code has been written by millions of programmers around the world, and many of those programmers are not happy. They argue that GitHub should not get to benefit from their hard work in this way, especially not to develop a technology that could put their jobs at risk.
This seems to be a problem beyond copilot. I have seen this outcry regarding every popular AI software.
Among the top 20 religious sites, 14 were Christian, two were Jewish and one was Muslim, one was Mormon, one was Jehovah’s Witness, and one celebrated all religions.
This is exactly how biases can become apparent in AI models. This also seems intentional. Islam is the second most followed religion in the world, yet it had one site dedicated to the AI.
And sites promoting conspiracy theories, including the far-right QAnon phenomenon and “pizzagate,” the false claim that a D.C. pizza joint was a front for pedophiles, were also present.
Are these sites included in these models to explain these conspiracy theories, or do they push these ideas onto the viewers?
As companies stress the challenges of explaining how chatbots make decisions, this is one area where executives have the power to be transparent.
The findings of this article explain the reason why executives lack transparency. There would be mass controversy if they revealed what is going into their AI models (and legal trouble).
The three biggest sites were patents.google.com No. 1, which contains text from patents issued around the world; wikipedia.org No. 2, the free online encyclopedia; and scribd.com No. 3, a subscription-only digital library. Also high on the list: b-ok.org No. 190, a notorious market for pirated e-books that has since been seized by the U.S. Justice Department.
This is why I have made an effort to verify an information shown to me from AI software, especially when I am using the information for schoolwork.
professors who need to adjust their thinking
I would agree with this notion. I do not see a point to teaching the old ways to do things (behind presenting historical context). Many of the professors in this article seem to be focused on preserving their ways of thinking rather than actually teaching their students.
But the issue is likely not that modern students are learning fewer digital skills, but rather that they’re learning different ones.
I don't really see this as an issue with the new generation, but rather the old. The process of navigating a computer has become increasingly easier as years have gone by. The older generations should be learning the new and improved ways to go through a computer. It would make it easier for them, and there would no longer be a generational disconnect.
but they have no problem having 1,000 files in the same directory. And I think that is fundamentally because of a shift in how we access files.
I have generally kept all of my files in the same directory. I make sure to name every file, so I can just search a file when I need it. I do not need to organize anything by specific topics.
told a class full of research students to pull a file out of a specific directory and was met with blank stares
Speaking from experience, I can confirm this issue. Last year, when I took a class that used Github, many students were confused on how to create project folders/directories (including myself). Very few of us had ever done that before.