One reason the Open Source Initiative argues that Meta's models aren't truly open source is that access to them is limited to, say, applications with fewer than 700 million monthly users. Even so, Meta could benefit from opening itself up further. The more it does, the more attractive its platform could become to developers, increasing the likelihood that a future successful application will be based on its technology.
Finally, governments should also allow open-source AI to thrive by enforcing uniform safety standards and avoiding intellectual property restrictions that hinder research. As with many other software programs, AI innovation thrives best when it is open and transparent.y Igor G. Cantalini – A million-dollar canvas, painted by a robot. No, this is not the incipit of a dystopian novel, but the chronicle of an auction that left the art world speechless. Last Thursday, in New York, the special lead auction house Sotheby's sold the work “AI God. Portrait of Alan Turing” for a sum that exceeds one million dollars, exactly 1.08 million dollars. But who is responsible for this extraordinary creation? A robot. And not just any robot: it is Ai-Da, the first ultra-realistic humanoid robot artist in the world.
And yet, it's hard not to ask: how can a robot, devoid of consciousness, create something so fascinating that it shakes up the art industry? And, most importantly, what's human about all this?
The work, 2.2 meters tall, depicts Alan Turing, the mathematician and computer science pioneer who in the twentieth century deciphered Nazi codes and laid the foundations for what we now call artificial intelligence. But while the figure of Turing is that of a man who made rationality his credo, Ai-Da, the machine that portrays him, is the compendium of programmed rationality. And here's the beauty (or bizarre) part. The portrait of Turing, in fact, far exceeded pre-sale expectations: it was expected to sell for between 120,000 and 180,000 dollars, and instead it soared well beyond that. 27 offers were made, as if to demonstrate that something, in the art world, is truly changing.