The Importance of Open Source Data for Generative AI, Now and in the Future with Abby Kearns

This episode features an interview with Abby Kearns, technology executive, board director, and angel investor. Her career has spanned executive leadership, product marketing, product management, and consulting across Fortune 500 companies and startups, including Puppet, Cloud Foundry Foundation, and Verizon. Abby currently serves as a board director for Lightbend, Stackpath, and Invoke. In this episode, Sam sits down with Abby to discuss the betrayal source license, the role open source plays in AI, and empowering trust.-------------------“There's so much happening so quickly that I think open source has the power to help harness a lot of that innovative conversation. In a way that I think it's going to be really, really hard to match in a proprietary way. I think open source and the ability, given the fact that we're talking about AI and data, the two are very interrelated at this point. AI is not super interesting without data. I think the power of open source right now and what's happening, I think it has to happen in open source and I think it really has to have that level of transparency and visibility. But, always the ability for everyone to step up and understand what's happening at this moment in time and shape it.” – Abby Kearns-------------------Episode Timestamps:(00:50): Sam and Abby discuss the betrayal source license(14:12): What open source data means to Abby(23:30): Abby dives into the companies she’s investing in(34:30): How nonprofits can empower trust(38:32): A question Abby wishes to be asked(40:21): Abby’s advice for the audience(43:53): Backstage takeaways with executive producer, Audra Montenegro-------------------Links:LinkedIn - Connect with AbbyTwitter - Follow AbbyRead Design the Life You Love