{"id":116212,"date":"2020-11-23T06:27:50","date_gmt":"2020-11-23T14:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/opensource-the-magic-power-of-ai-research"},"modified":"2020-11-23T06:27:50","modified_gmt":"2020-11-23T14:27:50","slug":"opensource-the-magic-power-of-ai-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/opensource-the-magic-power-of-ai-research","title":{"rendered":"Opensource: The magic power of AI research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/opensource-the-magic-power-of-ai-research.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As an <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/PyTorchLightning\/pytorch-lightning\" class=\"\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">open-source developer,<\/a> the question I hear the most is \u201cwhy would you want to give that away for free.?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the field of AI, there are many reasons why opensource is key. First, the code for building models does not give away any competitive advantage because the value comes from models+your own data. Second, it lets the whole world help you find and correct mistakes. Imagine building a house where every architect in the world can contribute one tiny idea. But more importantly, AI is a <strong class=\"\">really<\/strong> hard problem to solve.<\/p>\n<p>The problems in the field <strong class=\"\">cannot<\/strong> be solved by any one individual or group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As an open-source developer, the question I hear the most is \u201cwhy would you want to give that away for free.?\u201d In the field of AI, there are many reasons why opensource is key. First, the code for building models does not give away any competitive advantage because the value comes from models+your own data. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-habitats","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}