Artificial intelligence: an open source future | Business - ITProPortal

How will opensource affect the future of AI? explains Carmine Rimi, Product Manager for Canonical – the company behind Ubuntu.

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Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming everything in our daily lives, from customer experience and healthcare to manufacturing and agriculture. As a result, we’re seeing an exponential growth in AI funding. In fact, in the UK alone investment for AI developers from venture capital increased more than 200 per cent last year. This comes as no surprise when you consider the growing number of AI startups being founded. According to a recent study from Stanford University, in the last 20 years there has been a 14-times increase in the number of AI startups.

At the same time, we’re seeing an increasing number of technology companies invest in AI development. However, what’s really interesting is that these companies - including the likes of Microsoft, Salesforce and Uber - are open sourcing their AI research. This move is already enabling  developers worldwide to create and improve AI & Machine Learning (ML) algorithms faster. As such, open source software has become a fundamental part of enabling fast, reliable, and also secure development in the AI space. So, why all the hype around open source AI? Why are businesses of all sizes, from industry behemoths to startups, embracing open source? And where does the future lie for AI and ML as a result?...

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Open source allows any developer or IT team to develop technologies more cheaply and quickly, as well as more flexibly and securely. Developing in the open helps accelerate the adoption of numerous frameworks and software solutions through support from a large community of contributors.
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