EU Sticks With Timeline For AI Rules (reuters.com) 21
Reuters: The European Union's landmark rules on AI will be rolled out according to the legal timeline in the legislation, the European Commission said on Friday, dismissing calls from some companies and countries for a pause.
Google owner Alphabet, Facebook owner Meta and other U.S. companies as well as European businesses such as Mistral and ASML have in recent days urged the Commission to delay the AI Act by years. Financial Times adds: In an open letter, seen by the Financial Times, the heads of 44 major firms on the continent called on European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen to introduce a two-year pause, warning that unclear and overlapping regulations are threatening the bloc's competitiveness in the global AI race.
[...] The current debate surrounds the drafting of a "code of practice," which will provide guidance to AI companies on how to implement the act that applies to powerful AI models such as Google's Gemini, Meta's Llama and OpenAI's GPT-4. Brussels has already delayed publishing the code, which was due in May, and is now expected to water down the rules.
Google owner Alphabet, Facebook owner Meta and other U.S. companies as well as European businesses such as Mistral and ASML have in recent days urged the Commission to delay the AI Act by years. Financial Times adds: In an open letter, seen by the Financial Times, the heads of 44 major firms on the continent called on European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen to introduce a two-year pause, warning that unclear and overlapping regulations are threatening the bloc's competitiveness in the global AI race.
[...] The current debate surrounds the drafting of a "code of practice," which will provide guidance to AI companies on how to implement the act that applies to powerful AI models such as Google's Gemini, Meta's Llama and OpenAI's GPT-4. Brussels has already delayed publishing the code, which was due in May, and is now expected to water down the rules.
Yeah right (Score:2)
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The race is already underway, and the EU is already way behind.
You can argue that AI is going to the "bottom" (whatever that means) and it doesn't matter, but that seems rather foolish. People betting trillions of their own money obviously see things differently. LLMs are improving dramatically, and there's way more to AI than just LLMs.
By forfeiting yet another technology, the EU will sit and watch as others get there first.
Re: Yeah right (Score:2)
Way behind in the buble means less of a bust. Besides there is nothing to behind on all the AI tech is open source and companies are only competing to waste the most money
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Yep, pretty much. The current AI hype is just as much a scam als all previous ones. It will deliver 1% of the promises. Maybe.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions (Score:2)
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Doodeedoodoo, doodeedoodoo, plink, plink!
Europeans follow rules? (Score:5, Funny)
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July 9th is 4 only days away.
Oh right my father's birthday. Thanks for the reminder.
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And in this case, the rule is "If you're an American industry, fuck you. Why? Because fuck you, that's why.".
Ah yes the "American Industry". They are all complaining those Americans like Mistral and ASML (in this case in TFS). Tell me, where in America can I find France and the Netherlands?
The only thing truly American is the thought that everything is American. Oh and active shooter exercises.
Summary of rules (Score:3)
https://artificialintelligenceact.eu/high-level-summary/ [artificial...enceact.eu]
Feels like the EU is the only entity where corporations are forced to take responsibility like one would expect from adults.
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Thank god it's the only one.
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Can you go through the list in the link and tell us any downside? I can't find one. For example "exploiting vulnerabilities related to age", what do you think, something you would want to have implemented? "social scoring ... causing detrimental or unfavourable treatment of those people" totally something you want to happen to you?
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What?
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Poster JamesTRexx shows a link with the main features of the proposed legislation. You give a sarcastic answer like thank god nobody else proposes this sort of laws. I infer you disagree with the proposed law. I suggest you tell which point you disagree the most, within said list.