Mind linking any examples (or categories) of problems that are definitively not in pre training data but can still be solved by LLMs? Preferably something factual rather than creative, genuinely curious.
Dumb question but anything like this that’s written about on the internet will ultimately end up as training fodder, no?
One alternative definition of "democratic" is "relating to, appealing to, or available to the broad masses of the people." [0] Regardless of whether this is considered charged language or not, it is a valid alternate usage of the term. I never read the comment you're referring to as anything political.
Democracy is a broad term. It can be used politically, but it can also refer to:
A) a leveling of access (ie, that ordinary people are able to participate in the process).
B) a rejection of "snobbish"-ness about a field or its participants.
A light, non-political definition of democracy is just taking something that is restricted and making it broadly available and accessible, or changing perspectives on that thing such that normal participation in or usage of that thing isn't looked down on.
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From a "political" perspective (although probably not political in the way people think when they hear the word), democratizing code can also be thought of as an assertion that ordinary people should have agency over what their computers do. By building no-code solutions or accessible coding environments that allow ordinary people to create and share solutions to their problems, we give them the ability to compete with us about what those solutions should be.
In other words, it's not that a group of professional programmers decide what your computer can do, you can decide what your computer can do, and you can share your solutions and creations with other people on equal footing with the professionals.
There is a kind of "power to the people" mentality bundled up in concepts like Open Source and Open access to code. On one hand, these concepts don't require you to share anything, concepts like Open Source and Open access in computing allow for people to create fully private software that is entirely individual. But these concepts also allow groups of people to promote ideas about computing and about engineering in the form of working software or scripts that other people can use, and that gives those people more of a voice in conversations about what computers should and shouldn't do -- conversations that in a more locked down world would only be happening inside of companies or inside professional circles.
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I'm certainly not trying to create charged language, and I get that people might read democracy as an explicitly political Right vs Left thing. That was not my intention at all. But my feeling is that "democratizing code" is a fairly common term that I've heard a lot over the years, even leading back to my childhood -- so it didn't really occur to me that people would read it any other way.
Always happy to clarify stuff like that though; and maybe you're right. I might be out of touch with the current climate and maybe the common usage of the term has changed.
I follow a bunch of people on Twitter who have tried to do this at one point or another.
Money never seems to be the sticking point, the problem is (a) figuring out who actually owns the rights, and then (b) actually tracking that person (or company) down. If we're talking about games from the 80s and 90s, many of those rights changed hands a number of times and the people/companies involved have since died/dissolved/retired/disappeared off the radar.
Another very good reason for a shorter copyright expiration period.
If no one claims it or enforces copyright, then nothing is stopping anyone from attempting to work on it, but without the source, it'd be all reverse engineering or something to that affect.
> Most of the time spent is preparing and harvesting. In between you watch things grow and maintain. When nothing is growing...at least, my in-laws in China...drink, gamble (mahjong, card games) and hang out with other villagers.
So replace computers with agriculture and this xkcd really is timeless.
