Re: "Introduction to Artificial Intelligence"course from Stanford
- Posted by useless Oct 13, 2011
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Did you read the TOS at
https://www.ai-class.com/registration/tos
? I have a feeling if you develop an Ai after taking this course, they own it.
I don't think so. For instance (my emphasis):
USER PROVIDED CONTENT.
The Online Course may provide you with the ability to upload certain information and materials for use with the Class Sites or Online Course ("User Content"), e.g., questions, hypothetical, examples, etc. KnowLabs does not claim ownership of any User Content you may submit or make available for inclusion on the Class Sites or Online Course. Accordingly, subject to the license granted to KnowLabs below, User will be the sole and exclusive owner of any and all rights, title and interest (including without limitation all copyrights and renewals and extensions thereof) and trademark rights in and to the User Content.
They do claim ownership of the class materials, which makes sense. So you couldn't simply take their code and build off of it. Could you cite something that claims otherwise? I may have missed it, as I just skimmed the TOS.
Matt
They point to books and other websites they own, which you may take seriously, and build from, inadvertently violating the TOS or trademark. I also expect any comments you make regarding the material they own could be incorporated into that which they own, as not being directly related course material, in which case you may lose control of it. For instance, they keep mentioning the university regarding quality and difficulty and course organisation, but this is not a university sponsored course. The TOS is very long for a non-accredited course which you are being a beta tester for, so i distrust it. As an example of verbosity obscuring the base material, they own "HTM" as their version of a neural net, but they almost never say "neural net" or "NN" in the print on the other websites. My opinion, which others share, is NN have been soundly discredited as a general purpose Ai.
useless
