Stephen Downes

I agree with the argument made in favour of open source AI offered here by Tim O'Reilly. "I believe that the big labs are making the same strategic mistake that Netscape and Microsoft made in the mid 90s. Yes, make the models more reliable for ordinary users. But don't shut down the options for developers who don't work for you to push the state of the art forward. As Bill Joy put it decades ago, 'No matter who you are, most of the smartest people work for someone else.' No one should have a monopoly on innovation, and no one should be building a moat to hold it back."