Open or Closed? The battle for the soul of GenAI

Open or Closed? The battle for the soul of GenAI

• 1. Hey there, I’m Chris Messina April 22, 2024 ・ Shack15 ・ chrismessina.me

• 2. Hey there, I’m Chris Messina I’m here to speak about… April 22, 2024 ・ Shack15 ・ chrismessina.me

• 3. Photo by Jason Leung The battle for the soul of GenAI Open or Closed?

• 4. …which I suppose is because

• 8. Photo by Vlad Tchompalov

• 9. • Barcamp • Coworking • Microformats • The Hashtag • ActivityStreams • OpenID & OAuth

• 11. Andrius Kulikauskas

• 13. I accept the idea that I should give everything away.” — Andrius Kulikauskas “

• 15. Our goal is to […] unravel the normal economy, turning it inside out.” — David Ellison-Bey “

• 17. Image by Jose Antonio Gelado

• 18. Image by Jose Antonio Gelado

• 20. We strengthen our commitment to developer freedom, openness and innovation.” — Satya Nadella, Microsoft CEO “

• 23. Photo by Wil Stewart

• 25. open source open data open weights & models open licensing open protocols

• 28. AP Photo

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• 33. Photo by Jason Leung Open or Closed?

• 34. Photo by Jason Leung It depends!

• 35. Photo by Jason Leung Open or Closed?

• 36. Photo by Jason Leung What are we solving for?

• 37. I have thoughts.

• 38. But I had this dream…

• 39. Image by Jose Antonio Gelado

• 40. Image by Jose Antonio Gelado

• 41. ☭

• 44. Photo by Jason Leung Open or Closed?

• 45. Photo by Luis Quintero

• 46. Artwork by Sergio Kuub

• 47. Artwork by Sergio Kuub

• 49. Low hills closed in on either side as the train eventually crawled on to high, tabletop grasslands creased with snow. Birds flew at window level. I could see lakes of an unreal cobalt blue to the north. The train pulled into a sprawling rail yard: the Kazakh side of the Kazakhstan-China border.

• 50. Workers unhitched the cars, lifted them, one by one, ten feet high with giant jacks, and replaced the wide-gauge Russian undercarriages with narrower ones for the Chinese tracks. Russian gauges, still in use throughout the former Soviet Union, are wider than the world standard. The idea was to the prevent invaders from entering Russia by train. The changeover took hours. — Robert D. Kaplan, The Ends of the Earth

• 51. Workers unhitched the cars, lifted them, one by one, ten feet high with giant jacks, and replaced the wide-gauge Russian undercarriages with narrower ones for the Chinese tracks. Russian gauges, still in use throughout the former Soviet Union, are wider than the world standard. The idea was to the prevent invaders from entering Russia by train. The changeover took hours. — Robert D. Kaplan, The Ends of the Earth

• 53. We overestimate what we can achieve in a day, but underestimate what we can accomplish in a month, a year, or a decade.” — Maybe Tony Robbins, via Claude 3 Haiku “

• 54. Photo by Jason Leung

• 55. I have thoughts.

• 56. I want to recruit you. Image credit to the Library of Congress

• 57. Photo by Hannah Vorenkamp

• 58. Photo by Hannah Vorenkamp

• 59. Git stores and thinks about information in the same way that you might imagine a tree: there are branches, there is a trunk, and the commit points themselves are sort of like the [growth rings of] the tree.” — Scott Chacon, co-author of the Pro Git book “

• 61. 93.6% Of the top million web servers run Linux —ZDNET, July 2023

• 62. Share of Android’s mobile operating share worldwide 70.8% —statcounter, March 2024

• 63. Of all the websites on the internet run WordPress 43% —colorlib, January 2024

• 64. Photo by Hannah Vorenkamp

• 66. Photo by Luis Quintero

• 67. Photo by Luis Quintero

• 68. Our goal is to […] unravel the normal economy, turning it inside out.” — David Ellison-Bey “

• 69. source data weights & models licensing protocols closed closed closed closed closed

• 70. source data weights & models licensing protocols closed closed closed closed closed open open open open open

• 71. #ThankYou

• 72. Photo by Jason Leung The battle for the soul of GenAI Open or Closed? April 22, 2024 ・ Shack15 ・ chrismessina.me