Ask HN: Why do people want to “democratize” AI?

2 points by howon92 9y ago ↗ HN

There seem to be a lot of big moves (including YC) in democratizing AI. In other words, they want to educate the general public to be aware of AI and provide data for free to build predictive models. But why would companies like Google or Facebook want to "democratize" AI? Isn't it in their best interest not to do so to keep their unfair advantage?

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savethefuture 9y ago ↗

Because the hivemind is much more powerful than a select few. The more people working on such tech the faster it will develop and the better and safer it will be.

DamonHD 9y ago ↗

AI is a very broad church.

The stuff that I use to make radiator valves 'smart' and save you money and carbon is not at all the same as the smarts in a self-driving car or automatic natural-language translation.

So I'm not sure that 'AI' is different to 'secret sauce' in your question.

Rgds

Damon