Google released its machine learning library called TensorFlow as open source software last week. The code may be downloaded from the website www.tensorflow.org.
TensorFlow is the company’s artificial intelligence engine currently in use now on may of Google’s customer facing services like search, Gmail and Google Photos. TensorFlow is used to automate detection of patterns and enabling the services to present options to users that are relevant to their data or usage patterns.
By releasing the source code to the open source community, Google hopes to accelerate development of machine learning or artificial intelligence as more developers and users can be involved in testing, experimenting and developing the machine learning library.
Open source development has been instrumental in producing software technologies that are widely used on the Internet today. The Linux operating system, the most popular open source operating system is being used not only on desktops and servers but also on mobile devices. The Android operating system for mobile devices is based on Linux.
40% of websites around the world runs on the Apache HTTP server which is open source software. 25% of all websites run on the open source content management system WordPress. Such is the impact of open source software development and Google hopes similar progress will be done on TensorFlow by making it open source.
