India, May 17 -- Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a technology that is adaptable for many purposes, fed with human linguistic and other behavioural data that is scraped from the immense datasphere existing in the web. Like the forms of software that are necessary for its creation and use, this software, too, is being produced in an unequal competition between parties making "open source" software that anyone can copy, improve and share, and parties making closed, proprietary systems.

Over the last few decades, free and open source software (FOSS) has come to dominate the global software industry. Despite the efforts of proprietary-technology companies with enormous resources, sharing rather than excluding turned out to be the way to make ...