The premise of William Hertling’s piece is that, “Openness is disruptive, profitable, and will allow participation in robotics and AI to take off.”
As opposed to the slow process of incremental advancements, Hertling asserts that with an open source platform and with the significant contributions of users around the world, that this “crowd-sourced knowledge” will provide broader and more accurate results than the current traditional small circle of experts.
In addition, once basic computing power has increased to a level near that of IBM’s Watson, robotic hobbyists and others will be able to develop, test, and make their contributions to this field via open-source.
He uses the examples and success of Wikipedia and the Linux operating system among others.
He makes a solid case and I hope he’s right.
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