There Is No AI (It's Just People), with Jaron Lanier [video]

This was such a good discussion. So many interesting topics hit.

I find his take on open source software interesting; that pushing for free and open software is inevitably serving the interests of those who will collect and profit from it. And that by attempting to make everything free we are making it more difficult for young people to make money. Lots more to say about that I'm sure.

On social media I agree with him that the current economic rules are creating the undesirable effects we see now. My solution for this was to ban the sale and purchase of user data. His perspective was that policing the data was more difficult, and that a better solution would be to police the software; that we should outlaw software that attempts to predict human behavior. There might be unintended consequences there, but it's not a bad idea.