The case for open source classifiers in AI algorithms

Dr. Carol Reiley's achievements are too long to list. She co-founded Drive.ai, a self-driving car startup that raised $50 million in its second round of funding last year. Forbes magazine named her one of "20 Incredible Women in AI," and she built intelligent robot systems as a PhD candidate at Johns Hopkins University. But when she built a voice-activated human-robot interface, her own creation couldn't recognize her voice. Dr. Reiley used Microsoft's speech recognition API to build her interface.