Technology

I've been thinking about how to do that. The code for most AI is pretty basic and uninteresting. It's mostly modifying the input for something usable. Companies could open source their entire code base without letting anything important out.

The dataset is the real problem. Say you want to classify fruit to check if it's ripe enough for harvesting. You'll need a whole lot of pictures of your preferred fruit where it's both ripe and not ripe. You'll want people who know the fruit to classify those images, and then you can feed it into a model. It's a lot of work, and needs to attract a bunch of people to volunteer their time. Largely the sort of people who haven't traditionally been a part of open source software.