Re:Will it be a golden age or a dark age for mathematics (an...
by ordinaryatom on Sunday October 18, 2026 @04:28PM
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If certain inventions become very easy for AI models to discover, i.e. the discovery bound to happen, then in these areas it becomes a game of land grab.
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Re:Will it be a golden age or a dark age for mathematics (an...
by kingofmen on Sunday October 18, 2026 @04:56PM
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True, but that is plausibly covered by existing precedent: If a discovery is "obvious to one skilled in the art", it can't be patented. IANAL but this seems to me easily extensible to "if you can do it in two five-minute prompts you can't patent it".
Separately, land grabs are not necessarily economically bad. The land being grabbed gets into productive use fast, and the grabber is hardly going to get all the resulting value. Especially not when the monopoly is temporary, as with a patent.