Users are driving innovation in the open-source sector and machine learning will benefit, according to Jim Whitehurst, CEO of open-source software firm Red Hat. “Machine learning, which is a big part of what we’re doing with OpenAI, has been around for quite some time Whitehurst predicted the adoption of machine learning as a result of open-source innovation will rise from around 1% of software developers to one third during the next few years.
Users are driving innovation in the open-source sector and machine learning will benefit, according to Jim Whitehurst, CEO of open-source software firm Red Hat. He said the idea of software containers, which allowed "pieces of applications" to be distributed to any sort of device, brought about solutions to many IT problems. Whitehurst predicted the adoption of machine learning as a result of open-source innovation will rise from around 1% of software developers to one third during the next few years.