On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 1:15 AM, Steve Richfield <[email protected]> wrote:
> HERE we are getting down to the primary question - how to turn ideas into > money. Patents and copyrights were designed to do that during a time when information had positive value. The internet changed that. It now costs more (per receive, in time) to receive information than it does to produce and distribute it. Information has negative value. It used to be that musicians could sell their songs through record companies. Now the path to fame is to give away your music video on Youtube. But that's only a temporary step. You should be preparing for a future where music is generated by AI, internet apps trained and customized by each listener. There will be 7 billion genres. It used to be that software developers could make money by writing programs to do something useful and selling them. Perhaps you noticed that now, software is free. You might be wondering how the industry survives. It is for the same reasons that we still have music. Writing code is a creative process, and giving it away advertises yourself. But again, this step is temporary. Software, like music, will be less about developing skills with a musical instrument or a programming language. It will be more about modeling what is going on in somebody's brain. When somebody uploads pictures of their drunken party to Facebook, they are contributing to building a global AGI by providing data to build your models. How do you think Zuckerberg became a billionaire? Facebook is free, right? -- -- Matt Mahoney, [email protected] ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-f452e424 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-58d57657 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
