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The future of Artificial Intelligence is Open-source! Here’s why?
Open-source AI gets Big Tech in trouble
Developments in open-source artificial intelligence (AI) have accelerated massively in the last three months. So it stands to reason that the future of AI is open source. There are several reasons why this makes sense. One reason is that AI is increasingly penetrating our everyday lives.
“AI concerns us all, so access to the code should be available to everyone!” (by the authors)
That’s the open-source idea! Access to the code of AI models is essential for the security of humanity. External experts and researchers can identify and warn about vulnerabilities. So we can minimise the risks of AI. We must not leave AI development exclusively to big technology companies, who keep their know-how to themselves. Governments need to push the open-source idea so that big technology companies don’t have power over AI technology. The EU’s AI Act aims to push open-source solutions. But at least one big company could paradoxically benefit from the open-source idea. We explain it in this article. Be curious!
First, this article reviews current developments and outlines the advantages and challenges of open-source AI development. The focus of the article is on Large Language Models (LLMs). Furthermore, it is essential to highlight the strategies of big technology companies, as they are primarily involved in the development of new AI models. Let’s first look at current developments!
AI and Open Source — Current developments
In this section, we will go through the rapid development of AI in the open-source sector step by step (Based on Google “We Have No Moat, And Neither Does OpenAI”).
It all started in February 2023:
February 24, 2023
Meta launches LLaMA and releases the source code for all but not the weights. The LLaMA’s model weights are only available for academics and researchers on a…
