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Contractors Vexed by Federal Definition of AI: Dr. Lance Eliot

Contractors can get blindsided by something as simple as a definition. Dr. Lance Eliot points out that the federal definition of artificial intelligence (AI) varies dramatically, which can mess up contractors that assert for contractual purposes that they have or are using AI. ...

Contractors can get blindsided by something as simple as a definition. Dr. Lance Eliot points out that the federal definition of artificial intelligence (AI) varies dramatically, which can mess up contractors that assert for contractual purposes that they have or are using AI. ...

It was first codified in Section 238(g) of the John S. McCain National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019. Since then, procurement officers have opted to take the easy road by merely copying and pasting the AI definition into their contracts.

Here’s the definition:

_{(g) ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE DEFINED. In this section, the term ‘‘artificial intelligence’’ includes the following:
1) Any artificial system that performs tasks under varying and unpredictable circumstances without significant human oversight, or that can learn from experience and improve performance when exposed to data sets.
2) An artificial system developed in computer software, physical hardware, or other context that solves tasks requiring human-like perception, cognition, planning, learning, communication, or physical action.
3) An artificial system designed to think or act like a human, including cognitive architectures and neural networks.
4) A set of techniques, including machine learning, that is designed to approximate a cognitive task.
5) An artificial system designed to act rationally, including an intelligent software agent or embodied robot that achieves goals using perception, planning, reasoning, learning, communicating, decision making, and acting.}

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The definition has all kinds of vagaries and confounding elements. ...

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