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Despite Pledging Openness, Companies Rush to Patent AI Tech

Despite Pledging Openness, Companies Rush to Patent AI Tech

Despite Pledging Openness, Companies Rush to Patent AI Tech

Business, Spoken · SpokenLayer

August 1, 20189m 29s

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Show Notes

At Google’s cloud computing conference in San Francisco last week, CEO Sundar Pichai mused on his company’s commitment to openness, and artificial intelligence. “We create open platforms and share our technology because it helps new ideas get out faster,” Pichai said. Then he namechecked TensorFlow, the machine learning software Google developed and uses internally. The company open sourced the code in 2015, and it has since been downloaded more than 15 million times.

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