[cromwellian]

In most sci-fi, you ask the ship computer a question and it can answer using the sum total of all human information.

But judging by the comments her, when Captain Picard asks the ship how long to Starbase 17 at Warp 9, rather than answer you want it to tell the Captain to visit WarpTravelCalculator.com

If you publish information in this world, there’s nothing preventing people from learning it and rewriting it in a new way. Humans do it all the time and they don’t pay the people they learned it from a portion of proceeds.

Future AI will do this too. I want machine learning to read every book and paper ever written and be able to answer queries and summarize things for me.

We may need to find a better model for encouraging content contribution to society besides copyright and demanding royalties on every use.

[mfer]

The analogy here doesn't work well for a few reasons....

1. It mixes mapping math calculations with published information like texts.

2. The AI in star trek worked to serve the end user, in this case Picard. In our world the AI systems are designed to serve the software's owner such as Google. It's not trying to give you the best answer. Instead it's trying to provide you responses that make Google the most money or get them into positions of power and influence the leaders want.

3. Star Trek takes place in a world where the Federation doesn't use money and everyone is motivated to put in a hard days work. On most planets they don't have poor. This does not fit the societal cultural dynamic we have now.

> We may need to find a better model for encouraging content contribution to society besides copyright and demanding royalties on every use.

Right now we have a problem where people are trying to step on content creators. I was reading an example of where singers were trying to get added to songs as writers when they didn't write songs so they could get more of the writers royalty from sales. We live in a world where some will beg, borrow, steal, plagiarize, and generally try to hurt others to get a leg up. Including many at big businesses who would leverage AI for that.

We may hope for the best but we should plan for the worst.

[selfhoster11]

Most of those starship computers are autonomous. In the current "AI" model, they would be reduced to a mere glorified Amazon Echo speaker. I think that's an important distinction to have.

[zepto]

Very much this. People yearn for a world of a giant number of websites and software packages like in the old days, but the reality is that a humane computer may not need a lot of different interfaces.