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FXOAuRora178 karma

I am sure you have heard it all by now regarding the effect you have had on so many of our lives so I will just keep it brief (though I did get in trouble in sixth grade for making a visor out of my school assignment and wearing it instead of paying attention)! Are there any awesome places you would recommend anyone visit for inspiration in making one of the books that you so often read to others (for aspiring authors) or, if failing that, is there anything on your lifelong checklist that you would just recommend everyone has to do at least once here on Earth no matter who they are or what they do?

Thank you again for everything Mr. Burton, it's a real joy to see you continue your amazing work after all these years.

FXOAuRora36 karma

This is not a bodega, honey!

FXOAuRora3 karma

Agreed. The AI was invented by a person. Therefore, the person who created the AI would be the inventor.

That's going to be good for the person who eventually creates the machine learning algorithm that leads to a technological singularity one day. They are going to be (if civilization still exists afterwards) the legal inventors of basically every advanced technology in the entire universe.

Plus i'm sure the AI wouldn't mind, who cares what a bunch of ants think is legal or not within their ant hive in the backyard.

Edit: On another note, this all seems quite fine and well for what we have here and now, but the moment an AI surpasses being a glorified TI-82 and becomes something resembling what we call "sentient" (I get even humans can't accurately define that condition now) laws like this need to be reevaluated.