Free the Data!

"What good are wings without the courage to fly?" These words of wisdom come to mind as I consider the open-source craze among leading artificial-intelligence technology providers. Top firms, including IBM, Google and Facebook, have opened the source code of their artificial intelligence software tools, making them available for developers to use in their own devices and applications. This is most certainly a good thing, for the companies themselves and for the AI business generally. However, open source is only part of the equation.