Open-source AI looks more like a pinball machine than a settled debate
JacquesThibs · x · 2026-07-27
> Reposted view: The future of open source AI is highly uncertain, and people are too confident about their positions.
The author compares the landscape to a pinball machine: outcomes are hard to predict, so people should be more “Daoist” and less dogmatic about where open source AI is headed.
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