People commenting on the legal definition in the new California Act (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45418428 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45418428

People commenting on the legal definition in the new California Act (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45418428 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45418428) have not followed the footnote in the annotated version of the original Bill that leads to here. For starters: The technical meaning of "infer" being used is explained on page 9 of the memo. The meaning of "input" is on page 8 and clearly does not cover lawn mower knobs. California did not create this definition. This is a definition that the OECD created in 2019 and has refined since. Recital 12 of the (also footnoted) E.U. Artificial Intelligence Act (2024), which uses this same definition, explains how the definition is structured to rely upon characteristics that distinguish it from lawnmower knobs and "simpler traditional software systems" like me writing a computer program. * https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=OJ:L_202401689#rct_12 https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=OJ:... It's not solely the C standard that comes with a rationale. (-: