Open Source and AI: a 2014 perspective

I wrote the following email in July 2014 to the New Zealand Open Source mailing list. I'm adding it here because it documents my thoughts about where we were going with AI at the time. Perhaps more importantly it discussed time frames.

Just like numerous other specialties in software there are open source artificial intelligence projects aiming to develop AI systems of various kinds.

But perhaps we need to ask ourselves where this is leading? It would be ironic if …

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