| Sorry I don't understand.
What's the problem if you're just storing all programs?
I can store all possible programs today on a hard drive today. You can easily "store" all programs written in the history of humankind and all those who are yet to be written, in the same way you can "store" all books ever written by humans and those yet to be written (see "The Library of Babel" by Jorge Luis Borges) The threat to the working programmer is having something that "understands" the programs and tells which ones are "good" (correct, useful, etc), from those who don't work (perhaps because they are a little wrong or perhaps because they are just a random jumble of instructions). That's what I understand when I read the word "store" in the context of what you've written, but I'm pretty sure I'm misunderstanding something here. Are you referring to the fact that the incentives behind the current wave of AI is to get them trained by copying all source code publicly available and that that is a problem because these AI models now absorbed the code without honouring the intellectual rights of the authors (and not honouring the license the authors have chosen for their creations)? BTW, I agree that that is a problem. But it is a problem because of the outputs: the models _output_ snippets of code that is distilled from patterns (and sometimes outright copies) of the code (and other text) it was trained on. The process of extracting that information from the model *is* the process of generating an output. |