Intel open-source software projects are beginning to relay notices that they may have been developed with support from Intel-operated generative AI solutions.
Released this morning by Intel was IGSC 0.9.6 for the Intel Graphics System Firmware Update Library as an API used for dealing with firmware updates on their discrete graphics cards. Catching my eye this release wasn’t any exciting new Intel graphics hardware support or big features (there weren’t any) but rather acknowledging in the announcement they have added an AI disclaimer to the project.
Artificial Intelligence
These contents may have been developed with support from one or more Intel-operated generative artificial intelligence solutions.
This is now the second Intel open-source project I am aware of carrying an AI disclaimer. The other being their oneAPI Unified Memory Framework that carries a similar recently-added message:
Notices
The contents of this repository may have been developed with support from one or more Intel-operated generative artificial intelligence solutions.
Those are the first two Intel open-source software projects I am aware of carrying an AI disclaimer. Google didn’t turn up any other results yet.
The notices don’t shed any light onto how Intel is currently or planning to generative AI for their open-source software contributions. For example, if they will be limited to documentation and release maintenance work or if there will be new code contributions or just evaluating code being worked on by Intel engineers. But given the times at large and compounded by the business pressures at Intel, this likely won’t be the end of Gen AI notices for Intel software projects.
