DebConf12 - "Machine learning threats and opportunities for Debian and Free Software" by P. Duboue
Channel: Pablo Duboue
Date: 2015-01-27

This is a talk about how machine learning models are more a game changer with respect to Free Software than what Debian already has collectively agreed. The key aspects I want to discuss are user expectations with respect to software incorporating trained models, preferred form of modification, training times and licensing issues for training data.

This talk is informed by the discussion on debian-legal [1] back in 2009 and my work on the machine learning infrastructure for IBM DeepQA Watson system.

The objective is to start discussion on the subject and bring more people to the table. (Without hopefully not ending up in a major flamewar like in 2009 ;-)

[1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2009/05/msg00028.html