With everything that's been happening this week, @Dr_JohnFletcher's advice on protecting your tacit knowledge feels particularly relevant.
The most valuable part of research isn't always the paper. It's the ideas, intuitions and unfinished work that haven't been written down yet.
Once that enters an AI system, where does your knowledge end and the model's begin?
That question is only going to get harder.
Read John's thoughts on protecting this know-how: https://t.co/6kXGhdHprs
Open and Closed are completely different games
But there's a huge incentive to make you believe otherwise
If enough people coordinate around Open, Closed cannot compete
Hi folks, after a bit of schedule shuffling, the community call is moving back to Fridays as per regular programming.
Keep an eye out for the Space details.
Can a company put a TIG algorithm in its product and sell it to thousands of customers, without every customer needing a licence?
Yes, they can.
John: "If you take it under the commercial license, you do have the right to integrate it even into a closed product."
The manufacturer holds the licence and the customers pay nothing. Wider sales are already covered by the price.
John: "If you sell 100,000 units rather than 10,000, your revenue goes up. And you've got to remember that the license fee is based on revenue."