Wired 15.03: The Thinking Machine discusses the new company of Jeff Hawkins, called Numenta, which aims to create a "general purpose" AI platform. Numenta follows an open source strategy.
"Its platform, which has three main components: the core problem-solving engine, which works sort of like an operating system based on Hawkins’ theory of the cortex; a set of open source software tools; and the code for the learning algorithms themselves, which users can alter as long as they make their creations available to others. Numenta will earn its money by owning and licensing the basic platform, and Hawkins hopes a new industry will grow up around it, with companies customizing and reselling the intelligence in unexpected and dazzling ways."
Tuesday, March 13, 2007
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For the record, they're not releasing their product as Open Source, but are openly releasing their source, or at least most of it.
There is a difference in being open and technically open-source. Just a clarification...
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