Open source key to unlocking AI's potential: Mozilla
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Paris: Open source development of artificial intelligence models could power economic growth and reduce risks from the technology, the head of the non...
Paris: Open-source development of artificial intelligence models could power economic growth and reduce risks from the technology, the head of the non-profit behind the Firefox web browser said Monday at the Paris AI summit.
Hailed by some big tech players as a key to AI success and shunned by others for undermining competitive advantage, open source refers to software makers sharing freely the inner workings of their systems so others can build on and adapt them.
"Small companies, governments, they all need to make AI safe. Us all having a toolkit, a Lego box, to do that freely, cheaply, in a robust way, that's going to help everybody go faster," Mark Surman, president of Mozilla, told AFP inside the Grand Palais summit venue.
In the past developers could simply share the source code of their software programmes with potential collaborators.
That was the case with projects such as Firefox or the Linux operating system that powers much of the internet.
