machine-learning

AI clean room

Apr 26, 2026 artificial-intelligence machine-learning technology ownership

Malus promises to liberate open source, but they just fired the opening shot across the bow of the software industry. Let’s dive in. Open Source First off, open source doesn’t need to be liberated from anything. You can read it and use it today, but what you can’t do under some of the licenses is take …

ML winter

Nov 11, 2021 Machine-learning Artificial-Intelligence

Is the next winter in computer science coming? You may hear the term “AI winter” dropped here and there. For those that are older, we can remember when the hype of AI had peaked before and the period of nothing right after it. AI has been a concept for many decades in computer science. Originally is was …

Metablogging

Oct 25, 2020 blogging Machine Learning Artificial intelligence meta

OpenAI has been doing some very interesting work around Machine Learning (ML) and automated text composition. The release of GPT-2 showed what could be done by building a large model and training it with a large corpus of examples. That corpus was from something called WebText which was around 8 million Reddit posts …