Publication: All Things Open

This brings me to the Open Source AI Definition (OSAID), an effort organized by OSI over the past two years, which I have participated in alongside others from both traditional open source backgrounds and AI experts. It is often said that naming things is the hardest problem in software engineering, but in this case we started with a name, “Open Source AI,” and set out to define it. As it turns out, that’s just as hard. This difficult work can also appear contentious because people have strong opinions, but that’s nothing new for open source software (or people).