🚨 BREAKING: The EU has just published guidelines on the EU AI Act's definition of AI. Many will be surprised to discover that the systems below are NOT COVERED [bookmark & download below]: 1. "machine learning-based models that approximate functions or parameters in optimization problems while maintaining performance. The systems aim to improve the efficiency of optimisation algorithms used in computational problems. For example, they help to speed up optimisation tasks by providing learned approximations, heuristics, or search strategies." 2. "satellite telecommunication system to optimize bandwidth allocation and resource management. In satellite communication, traditional optimization methods may struggle with real-time demands of network traffic, especially when adjusting for varying levels of user demand across different regions. Machine learning models, for instance, can be used to predict network traffic and optimize the allocation of resources like power and bandwidth to satellite transponders, having similar performance to established methods in the field." 3. "a chess program using a minimax algorithm with heuristic evaluation functions can assess board positions without requiring prior learning from data. While effective in many applications, heuristic methods may lack adaptability and generalization compared to AI systems that learn from experience." 4. "All machine-based systems whose performance can be achieved via a basic statistical learning rule, while technically may be classified as relying on machine learning approaches fall outside the scope of the AI system definition, due to its performance." 5. "Static estimation systems, such as customer support response time system that are based on static estimation to predict the mean resolution time from the past data and trivial predictors such as demand forecasting for a store to predict how many items of a product the store will sell each day are other examples, that help to establish a baseline or a benchmark, e.g. by predicting average or mean." 👉 Download & learn more below. 👉 NEVER MISS my AI regulation updates: join 51,500+ readers who subscribe to my weekly AI governance newsletter (link below)