

Because in that case the copyright holder is the arbitrator of the terms under which their copyrighted material can be used and reproduced. If they did not own the copyright then any “license” would not be worth the paper it was written on and no judge would allow it to be treated as an implicit contract.











Lots of talk about “neuro-symbolic” AI, which just sounds like the connectionists finally conceding that the symbolic approach is necessary, but trying desperately to cling on to their dignity by putting a “neural” in front.
It’s a discussion we’ve been having since the 70s but where is the progress in symbolic AI algorithms? Are we still building the semantic web? Can we solve the framing problem?
Is this just more hype to fuel the bubble?