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Agreed. What even counts as "AI that interprets human emotions"? Is a suggestion algorithm designed to maximize clicks "interpreting human emotions"?


I find this to be an interesting statement. What happens if you're able to evade regulation by making your "AI that interprets human emotions" of really poor quality.

"Your honor, we investigated the source code and discovered that there was technically no AI being utilized. It was a poorly formatted series of if-statements. Honestly, I wouldn't even consider this a program. How it avoids crashing the moment it's run is beyond me."

Like, does AI mean some statistical method is used? That large data sets were used? Are you using some declarative language like prolog?

Ultimately the only definition I can see them coming to will reduce to "person uses computer to do thing I don't like." And somehow I don't think that's going to actually help.




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