[Writers] Open Source and AI

[Gregory Pittman]

Hi Stefano,

Thanks for the information. I'm not sure I have the expertise to make much of a contribution myself. I'm still in the phase of trying to
understand more about this topic.
Thanks for the links...

Greg Pittman

On 9/18/23 05:42, Stefano Maffulli wrote:
> hi Gregory,
> 
> On Sun, Sep 17, 2023 at 3:31 PM Gregory Pittman via Writers <writers at lists.opensource.net <mailto: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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> The Open Source Initiative has convened a very wide conversation to define Open Source AI and we're in the second year of the effort. In case you missed it, I'd recommend to listen to the podcast https://deepdive.opensource.org/podcast <https://deepdive.opensource.org/podcast> and read the 2022 report https://deepdive.opensource.org/report <https://deepdive.opensource.org/report>
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> Next week we'll start the webinar series https://opensource.org/events/deep-dive-ai-webinar-series-2023/ <https://opensource.org/events/deep-dive-ai-webinar-series-2023/> which will be followed by an in-person meeting at All Things Open (Oct 17) where we'll discuss a draft definition of Open Source AI.
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> The topic is extremely complex, we've covered the issue on the OSI blog https://blog.opensource.org/tag/ai/ <https://blog.opensource.org/tag/ai/> and we're happy to continue the conversation also on opensource.net <http://opensource.net>. How would you like to move the conversation forward?
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> thanks,
> stef
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> PS
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>     There are no doubt other issues which other OSDN writers can advance also.
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> Please, don't call it OSDN (that acronym has its own history in the open source world): the (unofficial) short version of OpenSource.net is OSnet.
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