Comment on Judge Rules Training AI on Authors' Books Is Legal But Pirating Them Is Not
nednobbins@lemmy.zip 2 weeks agoThat’s a very emphatic restatement of your initial claim.
I can’t help but notice that, for all the fancy formatting, that wall of text doesn’t contain a single line which actually defines the difference between “learning” and “statistical optimization”. It just repeats the claim that they are different without supporting that claim in any way.
Nothing in there, precludes the alternative hypothesis; that human learning is entirely (or almost entirely) an emergent property of “statistical optimization”. Without some definition of what the difference would be we can’t even theorize a test