Am I too late for the 4:30 autogyro to Siam?
Surprising possible future of the day: A world populated by infinitely intelligent AIs, with a crippling flaw: they only know things you can learn by looking at public domain works!
Prompted by two things. First, this quote by a Googler on Google Print:
We are not scanning all those books to be read by people. We are scanning them to be read by an AI.
Then, this blog post today by Google:
The world’s libraries are a tremendous source of knowledge, much of which has never been available online. One of our goals for Google Print is to change that, and today we’ve taken an exciting step toward meeting it: making available a number of public domain books that were never subject to copyright or whose copyright has expired. We can show every page because these books are in the public domain.
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The world’s libraries are a tremendous source of knowledge, much of which has never been available online