Biography:
Lothar is a long term open source ambassador and contributor in the free office productivity software. He holds a master of Computer science and economics. He did one of the first master’s theses in Data Mining at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence. The roots of his engagement and his company are in the early years of StarOffice and OpenOffice.org as the first service providers in the ecosystem. With a yearlong track record in migration projects for open source software he co- developed the certification activities around LibreOffice technology. During the pandemic he was the chairman of the board of The Document Foundation (TDF), the home of LibreOffice. He also is a board member of the Open Source Business Alliance (OSBA) and lobbying for digital sovereignty in private sector and public affairs.
Is Open Source with Co-Pilots at risk? Why LibreOffice Technology never could be an OpenAI case…
AI driven Co-pilots are entering the office productivity technology platforms and getting more and more industry relevant. And with that there is one prominent elephant in the room, OpenAI with ChatGPT, on which the most pilots are built today. This is shaking the office productivity market especially in professional deployments of it. A lot of work these days goes into integration of AI based functions and in user centric software solutions. So as well in LibreOffice Technology. It is interesting looking deeper into such possible AI based extensions for LibreOffice Technology and discussing the (not present) risk with it for industry organizations, going the wrong way from Open Source to Closed Source like OpenAI.