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Upstart Natural Machine is taking a chance by giving the future of artificial intelligence (AI) to open source Java programmers. In an era when the open source business model is still unproven, Natural Machine is releasing the core of its flagship product, Verbal AI (http://www.naturalmachine.com/products/vai/) under the open source project name of Ai Kernel (AIK) (http://aikernel.sourceforge.net). The company feels the rewards will come from leveraging the shared knowledge of thousands of AI enthusiasts and academia to expand its capabilities in key areas of research such as neural networks, Bayesian networks, natural language processing (NLP) and other computational linguistics. The AIK can be used in conversational computing, robotics, and other advanced computer technologies.