Tech Visionary Says the Big AI Labs Don’t Get What People Want
Tim O’Reilly built a publishing empire that AI is helping to destroy. Yet he loves AI—as long as it’s open source.
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A prominent tech figure is advocating for open-source artificial intelligence, arguing that major AI companies are not aligned with what people actually want. He applies his principle that entities should create more value than they capture, and warns that today's large-scale AI companies may be trying to lock users into proprietary systems, similar to practices from previous decades. He promotes making AI technology more widely accessible by opening up critical technical details and the entire stack of AI systems to give control to designers and users rather than concentrating it with large companies.
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