Defining AI, by law
A basic piece of any bill in Olympia is the definition of the legislation’s subject, and that gets tricky with “artificial intelligence.” There is no universal definition of the term. What’s the difference between a computer program that crunches data super-fast to spit out an answer and a computer program that actually thinks?
“It depends on who you ask. It’s all over the place, or depends on what people try to build. … It’s not clear,” said Noah Smith, a University of Washington computer scientist and professor working on the intersection of natural language processing, machine learning and computational social science.
That nebulous meaning is a
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