When you’re learning something, you can either go deep and master a narrow topic, or go wide and learn the basics of a range of subtopics falling under a broad topic. A third option is to stay somewhere in the middle. It’s safer in the middle, but you won’t learn the range of possibilities, and […]
No, your AI can’t have a copyright
On a recent episode of The Sell More Books Show podcast, they reported that U.S. Copyright Office Rules A.I. Art Can’t Be Copyrighted. Bummer. Now I can’t sell my AI-generated art, because anyone can just steal it for themselves. But can they? Actually… The headlines are misleading. It turns out you CAN copyright your AI […]
Universities Are Obsolete
A thousand years ago, books and literate people were rare, so they concentrated them into centers of learning in large monasteries and major cities. These became universities. They were concentrated areas where books were archived and learned people gathered. We still have universities today, where people go to learn. However, the internet has rendered universities […]
Knowledge Acquisition
There was a time when I dove head first into the world of non-fiction books, particularly of the personal growth variety. I read hundreds of books over a period of a few years. One year, I read about 80 books. I learned a lot from reading all of those books. But you know what? I […]
Can an AI Own a Copyright?
An AI (artificial intelligence) cannot own a copyright, because only people can own copyrights. Any argument to the contrary assumes that an AI is a sentient being, which it is not. AI is simply a set of computer instructions. It does not think. It’s just instructions for a computer to follow. Even if those instructions […]
Demonetization
Everybody wants to know how to monetize their websites. I tried monetizing my websites for a while and made a few dollars doing it. But was it worth it? No, because monetizing often means plastering your websites with annoying advertisements, jarring popups, and sleazy sales copy. You mess up the aesthetics of your sites and […]