Re:Facebook, Google Fund Nonprofits Shaping Privacy Debate
by netcan on Monday November 18, 2019 @11:33AM
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>> in much the same way it benefits us now, just more.
Tesla's data enables better driving software. Medical data lost motives medical tech, etc. If more people had access to it, the technology would improve more.
The conventional argument for patents, is/was (1) to encourage/reward innovation and (2) avoid secrecy. Imo, #2 failed, for the most part.
On innovation/etc... Ultimately data needs volume to be useful for ml applications. Opening all the datasets would also combine them, and improve their usefulness.
Tesla's data enables better driving software. Medical data lost motives medical tech, etc. If more people had access to it, the technology would improve more.
The conventional argument for patents, is/was (1) to encourage/reward innovation and (2) avoid secrecy. Imo, #2 failed, for the most part.
On innovation/etc... Ultimately data needs volume to be useful for ml applications. Opening all the datasets would also combine them, and improve their usefulness.