European CommissionAug 1, 2024

First to propose, first to deliver: the AI Act enters into force today.

It sets comprehensive rules to address the risks of AI:

🔴 Unacceptable risk AI, such as social scoring, is banned
🟠 High-risk AI, like in medical devices, must meet strict requirements
🟡 Limited-risk AI, like chatbots, must inform users they are interacting with AI
🟢 Minimal risk AI, such as spam filters, can operate with no added obligations

Europeans can now safely seize the opportunities of AI: https://europa.eu/!t4QTc8

Show threadBibbleCoAug 1, 2024
@EUCommission Baysian spam filters have been around for 20 years now and are not remotely AI... I hope the definition has been carefully worded!
Show threadcholling
@BibbleCo @EUCommission "AI" is a moving target and has been applied to wildly different technologies since it was coined in the 1950's. Expert systems (essentially just a lot of nested case statements) were once considered AI, as were simple ML techniques such as Bayesian filters. The use of the term to be interchangeable with deep learning is less than a decade old; the further narrowing to mean "large language models" barely two years old.

As others have said, "artificial intelligence" is a marketing term, not a technical term.
Aug 1, 2024 at 11:37amWeb
Show threadBibbleCoAug 1, 2024

@cholling @EUCommission I concur. I'm old enough to remember Eliza (and the expert systems hype, Lisp Machines, etc etc.)

That's why my teeth start to itch when decision makers, legislators etc start acting as though LLMs == AGI.

Edit - oh yeah, Markov chains text generation too