[Writers] Open Source and AI

[Jim Hall]

This sounds like it would be an interesting article. :-)

On Sun, Sep 17, 2023 at 8:31 AM Gregory Pittman via Writers
<writers at lists.opensource.net> wrote:
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> I keep wondering whether and what sort of stance opensource should take about AI. We see AI rapidly advancing,
> driven by the creators of various uses of it. AI is manifested as a "black box", much like closed-source programming.
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> One of the things that I would advocate as far as openness of AI is that one needs to be able to interrogate it.
> By this, I mean that you should be able to ask some AI platform how it achieved some result or conclusion,
> just as you would be able to ask a person how they came up with some answer or solution, rather than being left
> with something like, "this is the answer and it is what it is."
> There should be some ability to check the data sets that are the basis of AI, so that one can determine
> potential flaws, errors, or biases in the outcomes.
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> There are no doubt other issues which other OSDN writers can advance also.
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> Greg Pittman
>