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Does the EU AI Act apply to most, if not all software? It is probably not what was intended, but it may well be the case.  The EU AI Act, here, applies to “artificial intelligence systems” (AI system), and defines AI systems as follows: ‘artificial intelligence system’ (AI system) means software that is developed with…

Speed vs Uncertainty

Speed vs Uncertainty

Figures 1 and 2 show cost versus time; Figure 1 shows long iterations, Figure 2 short iterations. We choose to do something at time zero, at the origin of the graph in the Figure, and when we do so, we do it under some assumptions that we made at that time. Dashed red lines convey…

Can Opacity Be Solved in an AI Derived from an LLM?

Can Opacity Be Solved in an AI Derived from an LLM?

The short answer is “No”, and the reasons for it are interesting. An AI system is opaque if it is impossible or costly for it (or people auditing it) to explain why it gave some specific outputs. Opacity is undesirable in general – see my note here. So this question applies for both those outputs…

What Does a Training Data Market Mean for Authors?

What Does a Training Data Market Mean for Authors?

If any text can be training data for a Large Language Model, then any text is a training dataset that can be valued through a market for training data.  Which datasets have high value? Wikipedia, StackOverflow, Reddit, Quora are examples that have value for different reasons, that is, because they can be used to train…