What does it mean to be artificially intelligent? More than an endless parlor game for amateur philosophers, this debate is central to the forthcoming Artificial Intelligence Regulation for the 447 million citizens of the European Union.
, not only to Big Tech but to startups and the digital economies of many European member states. Even smaller countries like Austria and Greece have seen their digital economies rocket in the past decade, putting to rest the idea that the GDPR—which spent 7 years in very public development before coming into force in 2018—would destroy European ecommerce.
To answer these questions, we must understand what, exactly, the EU is trying to regulate. What is artificial intelligence? A recently popular joke says that AI is neither intelligent nor artificial.
are a special subclass of machine learning, this definition makes it way too easy to argue at length in court for excluding a system from consideration by the act, and thus from the oversight and protection the AIA is intended to guarantee. The call to restrict the definition of AI to only “complex” machine learning or other reasoning “ordinarily understood” to be intelligent is a problem. It produces not one but two ways people building or operating AI could avoid the kind of oversight the AIA was designed to provide, which every market needs for any potentially hazardous processes and products.
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