imagine speed of improvement in AI if everything was open sourced, instead of guarding their little secrets.
i hope google get f**, hoarding AI knowledge for years, only got shaken after recent events force them.
That's a sure-fire way of guaranteeing only Government funding, free labour, donations and oh so much politics of various forms. And I don't think the "speed of improvement" will increase, I'd say it'd slow to a crawl as there would be no money in it.