Introduction
The year 2023, dubbed "Year 1 of Artificial Intelligence", is emerging as a period of rebirth for the
open source movement. Paradoxically, this year has dispelled the ambiguities surrounding open
source code for the benefit of commercial companies that take this approach to serve their
customers.
Open Source, sometimes perceived as both "elitist" and "communist", is actually omnipresent in our
daily lives. From Firefox to Wikipedia, from Android to macOS XI and its derivatives on Apple
devices, not forgetting GNU/Linux distributions such as Debian, Gentoo and Slackware, each of us
uses in one way or another free software.
The Foundation for Current and Future Computing
Free software is the fundamental foundation of contemporary and future computing. Withstanding
the onslaught of IBM and Microsoft in the 1990s, as well as their successors in the 2000s and
2020s, it owes its resilience to the Internet and the passion of developers, requiring mainly
intellectual investment. Just give it GCC (GNU Compiler Collection) and a text editor, and it will
build you an operating system with all the necessary applications. Programming languages such as
C and C++ have spawned a plethora of languages like Python, JavaScript, and PHP.
Artificial Intelligence: Fruit of Universities, Silicon Valley and Open Source
Artificial Intelligence, like Athena springing from the mind of Zeus, owes its existence to the union
of universities, Silicon Valley companies and the open source movement. A company that openly
shares its sources with its customers and evolves together with them will not only be able to
integrate AI internally, but also design products with increased efficiency. Cynically, this would also
lead to substantial savings in research and development.
The Open Source Developer Advantage: Autonomy and AI-Assisted Collaboration
The open source developer enjoys a considerable advantage: autonomy. True, he follows the
guidelines of the system architect and contributes to the repository, but he does his work diligently,
alone or with the assistance of AI. This approach allows projects to evolve quickly and adapt
smoothly to new technologies and changing needs.
Conclusion
In sum, 2023 is emerging as a period of convergence between Artificial Intelligence and the open
source movement, where technological innovation and commercial efficiency merge harmoniously.
The growing adoption of open source by enterprises, coupled with collaboration with autonomous
developers, heralds an exciting era where the foundations of today's computing marry with the
promise of AI.