56 – AI everywhere – dangerous trends in AI integration?

AI is literally everywhere… in our mobile phones, laptops, their chipsets, etc. As integrations increase, what are the implications for everyone? Why are all the announcements from Microsoft, Google, Apple, Open AI and others, important? One of those episodes that you really need to listen to, as this IMPACTS YOU and all of us

Navigation:

1. Intro (01:34)
2. Getting us all on the same page
3. This matters TO YOU!!!
4. Open AI launching 4o
5. The responses
6. So… What?
7. Conclusion

Our co-hosts:

• Bertrand Schmitt, Entrepreneur in Residence at Red River West, co-founder of App Annie / Data.ai, business angel, advisor to startups and VC funds, @bschmitt
• Nuno Goncalves Pedro, Investor, Managing Partner, Founder at Chamaeleon, @ngpedro

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Bertrand Schmitt

Hi, welcome to episode 55 of Tech Deciphered. In this episode, we will talk about open versus closed and proprietary. What does it mean in technology to be an open or closed application? You have all heard about open-source, I guess. There is a saying in Silicon Valley, if you are first, you close it. If you come late, you open it.

Bertrand Schmitt

Basically, it means that you might have an advantage being the first player on the field. You might afford to be able to close-source your product, your software, your application. But if you are late to the game, late to the party, and it’s difficult to fight the leading player in the marketplace, maybe an alternative strategy in order to gain distribution is to open-source your product. There have been many examples of this through Silicon Valley history. Today, we are going to talk more about all of this. Good to see you, Nuno, today.

Nuno Goncalves Pedro

Nice to see you as well. Shall we start with history—the history of open-source? It’s apparently the first known system that was supposedly open-source or in public domain was in the ’50s, the A2 system in 1953. Basically, it was a compiler. A compiler is what turns source code into binary code that gets run by a machine.

Nuno Goncalves Pedro

It’s what allows you to run apps on, for example, your phone and things like that, a compiler. I know some of you that are like, I’m a computer engineer. Is that a compiler really or is it an interpreter? Let’s forget that for a second. Let’s call it a compiler just to make life easier for everyone involved.

Nuno Goncalves Pedro

That was the first public domain open-source thing that we know. Then there isn’t much, ’50s, ’60s, ’70s, there isn’t much. Obviously, there was the summer of love at some point in the late ’60s, and maybe through the ’70s, people started thinking through, shouldn’t we be doing things that are more open? One of such people was a gentleman called Richard Stallman, who’s still alive, so you’d shout out to him. He was part of this “let’s call it hacker community” from those days and was doing some interesting things around it.

Nuno Goncalves Pedro

There was this belief that source code shouldn’t be closed, that if you were monetising something quite a lot, and you were putting even certain things in your code, that if, for example, you were using unlicensed applications, so unlicensed binary, that you would run into trouble and have