Why Open Source Is The Cradle Of Artificial Intelligence
ZDNet, Thursday, September 21,2023
In the wildly competitive business of AI, is open source doomed to be always a bridesmaid, never a bride? Think again.
In a way, open source and artificial intelligence were born together.
Back in 1971, if you'd mentioned AI to most people, they might have thought of Isaac Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics. However, AI was already a real subject that year at MIT, where Richard M. Stallman (RMS) joined MIT's Artificial Intelligence Lab. Years later, as proprietary software sprang up, RMS developed the radical idea of Free Software. Decades later, this concept, transformed into open source, would become the birthplace of modern AI.