Good for IBM

It's not what I expect a corporation to do, but IBM just made its cancer-fighting AIs open source.

That is deeply humane, although one wonders how you fund continued future AI development without profit.

3 comments:

Christopher B said...

It's a loss leader for support contracts, bespoke versions, selling the hardware to run the code.

Dad29 said...

Yes. I'm sure IBM appreciates your concern, but they'll find a way to get through....

Grim said...

Heh. Likely they will.