Open Source AI: Opportunities and Challenges

“Since the 1980s, open source has grown from a grassroots movement to a vital driver of technological and societal innovation,” said “Standing Together on Shared Challenges,” a report published by Linux Foundation Research in December of 2023. “The idea of making software source code freely available for anyone to view, modify, and distribute comprehensively transformed the global software industry. But it also served as a powerful new model for collaboration and innovation in other domains.”

Irving Wladawsky-BergerIrving Wladawsky-BergerFebruary 11, 2024artificial intelligence, diversity, complex systems, data science and big data, economic issues, innovation, management and leadership, open source, political issues, society and culture

What’s the Likely Long Term Evolution of AI?

Since the advent of the Industrial Revolution, general purpose technologies (GPTs) have been the defining technologies of their times. Their ability to support a large variety of applications can, over time, radically transform economies and social institutions. GPTs have great potential from the outset, but realizing their potential takes large tangible and intangible investments and a fundamental rethinking of firms and industries, including new processes, management structures, business models, and worker training. As a result, realizing the potential of a GPT takes considerable time, often decades. Electricity, the internal combustion engine, computers, and the internet are all examples of historically transformative GPTs.

Irving Wladawsky-BergerIrving Wladawsky-BergerSeptember 4, 2023artificial intelligence, complex systems, data science and big data, economic issues, education and talent, future of work, innovation, political issues, services innovation, smart systems, society and culture, technology and strategy, permalink

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