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I think the idea is to use awareness of GNU and also to focus the attention of people with the skill to contribute on neural-networks. What I mean is, you're r
by simondedalus 11y ago
I think the idea is to use awareness of GNU and also to focus the attention of people with the skill to contribute on neural-networks.
What I mean is, you're right of course, there's much better neural-network free software already available, but GNU endorsing an official package 1) could get people whose concerns are more strongly geared toward free software ethics to start paying attention to neural networks, and 2) get people, regardless of their ideological commitment to anything, to be more aware both of the ethical issues and of neural-network software--just in virtue of GNU's mild fame.
and of course, unless the maintainer of this package makes weird choices and alienates other projects, there's the other benefit of projects learning from each other and poaching code and strategies for the greater good.
- capitalsigma 11y agoRight. I don't think this is meant to be immediately competitive against other, more mature neural net implementations. It's just GNU getting some skin in the game and giving people another option to use/contribute to. I think this might be a fun project to submit some changes to, since there's probably plenty of easy problems left to solve with such a new implementation.