Nick Clegg has defended the release of an open-source artificial intelligence model by Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta, as he claimed that “hype” about AI’s dangers was running ahead of the technology’s development
“Open source drives innovation because it enables many more developers to build with new technology,” Zuckerberg wrote in a Facebook post. “I believe it would unlock more progress if the ecosystem were more open.”
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jul/18/ai-free-open-source-microsoft
However, one expert said open source AI was a divisive issue, with some arguing that AI systems should not be widely available.
“There are competing schools of thought about open-sourcing AI,” said Dr Andrew Rogoyski,. “There are people who think AI should be accessible to anyone, democratising AI and keeping it available for independent scrutiny, and there are people who believe that AI should be withheld, like nuclear secrets, to avoid powerful technology getting into the wrong hands.”