Corporations are people. Monkeys arent people. AI??? ---- Since monkeys cant own the copyright to anything they produce.... I saw this and thought: what level of AI would be protected by law in the event the AI takes a selfie of its server farm? Say some group DOES manage to make a human-level intelligence--does IBM or whomever own it? Does that intelligence gain protections and rights? If it doesnt, do we then have a class of sentient virtual slaves? If the intelligence then produces a smarter AI (the premise for most discussions of the technological singularity), who owns it? What if the AI emerges accidentally/on its own out of the interactions of a critical mass of apps and data? Or, say we uplift chimps/dolphins (as in David Brins stories), and some researcher figures out how to give them human or near-human intelligence and communication skills. What would be the point where they gain human rights? What about multiple copies of a human uploaded intelligence? Would each one have rights as real children to, say, the estate? Greater, because thats actually the person? Would they have to pay taxes? #copyright #monkeyselfie #AI arstechnica/tech-policy/2014/08/monkeys-selfie-cannot-be-copyrighted-us-regulators-say/
Posted on: Fri, 22 Aug 2014 11:35:27 +0000
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