There is no doubt a debate around Client-side and Server-side connection pooler.
But, utilizing the Client-side connection pooling using such advanced drivers should never be taken lightly.
Understood.
It is no doubt the maintenance and the time to build.
However, it does take some efforts to build Oracle forms that requires a good amount of development time in PL/SQL and for customization of forms screens.
The thing is that it is a well understood platform and easy to hire out one of the major consulting companies by giving them the requirements and signing a statement of work.
Then when you don’t want to deal with them, hire out another one.
However, the extension to that is the Copyrights now. According to me, as long as the Idea creator is a Human, it should not matter if its AI and any LLM creating the art.
The human who gives the prompt may be the Author. This can be concerning but challenging for Legal.
I completely agree with this. AI is merely a tool. An advanced auto-correct, a smart fill-in-the-blanks tool. It doesn't do anything on its own. A human has to be involved in the use of it. Imo that human should be the one that reaps the rewards.
Maybe one day when AI can be legitimate actors themselves this might change, but for now AI doesn't do anything by itself. There's always a human involved to some extent.
Although I do think that one aspect that should be considered is the amount of human input to determine whether copyright should exist on the work at all. If I just generate an image with the prompt of "beautiful girl" with all default settings, then I think there would be a lot of other people that will generate the same (or substantially similar) image.
PostgreSQL is definitely going to be the de-facto database for all things AI. It is a database for the future with extensive integrations, advanced extensions for semantic and hybrid search involving vectors and keywords.
Some of the upgrades techniques presented in this talk are :
1. Using pg_dumpall
2. Using pg_dump and pg_restore
3. Using pg_upgrade without hard links
4. Using pg_upgrade with hard links
5. Logical Replication between major versions
Any other Upgrade methods you would like to discuss ?
That's a great point! The idea of robots with living skin raises so many questions. Do you think this technology could actually lead to robots that are indistinguishable from humans in our lifetime? And what ethical implications should we consider as we get closer to this reality? How should laws and regulations evolve to address these advancements?
There's a concept in science fiction called a bioroid, in which android are made of completely or mostly biological components. Think of a human body but almost entirely artificially engineered with biological systems.
I suspect in reality, human bodies may become more machine-like and more biologically engineered rather than just the focus on restoring functionality and health.
Biots in Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur Clarke.
Also one of the big bad enemies of the polity universe by Neal Asher is a species that can perform biological modifications to their own bodies by thinking about it.
Will this make people who make indirect money through their content, less motivated from publishing their content on the Web ?
This might be arguable.
May be, there should be a similar amount of openness in publishing the content used for training commercial models.
The copyright owner should have a privilege to ask for that content to be removed from training. This may also allow individual authors to gain their share with their Advanced RAG applications, that are specially focussed on the content they own and also published on the web.
Steelmanning against this, when you publish any form of content online you have to be prepared for the consequences of it's digital proliferation. When Napster was all the rage people said the same thing about music, and before that they decried home taping as the death of the music industry. The music industry lived on, it just changed form as the shape of music did.
If the online newsletter community that Substack and Medium built consequently dies from sheepish author syndrome, very little will change. The content they made will be replaced, and the internet will survive fine without them as it did for dozens of years before digital subscription services were a realistic revenue stream.
>Steelmanning against this, when you publish any form of content online you have to be prepared for the consequences of it's digital proliferation.
when you walk down the street in skimpy dress you have you have to be prepared for the consequences too, right? Whatever you're trying to say it has nothing to do with what rights companies have to use content.
The point is that you cannot claim damages to something that you give away for free. What did they take from you, notoriety? Content? Traffic?
When the Author's Guild pressed Google for their indexing of plaintext copywritten books, they lost in court. Transforming freely-available content can't be gatekept because the intent isn't strictly what the author imagined. There is a degree of fair use that exists when you make anything public. Music, art, text, videos, all of it can be consumed in novel and unexpected ways. People haven't been concerned about the legal ramifications of abusing intellectual property since teenage Neil Cicierega made Mr Rogers fight Batman in 2005: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrzKT-dFUjE
> you cannot claim damages to something that you give away for free
Maybe you can't claim damages based on loss of income, but that's not the only kind of damages.
For example, say I post an article and don't charge anything for reading it, and an LLM, based on its training data which includes my article, generates an article in my writing style. Sure, it hasn't cost me any money, but it might still affect my reputation if people think I wrote the article. Copyright is supposed to cover cases like that as well as cases where income is lost.
Maybe it’s better if people stop publishing for profit? The internet was better when everyone wasn’t trying to profit from it and it was a bunch of hobbyists.
