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[Silvia @smourapina]

@adampollock This is not how you make caldo verde.

[Luiza Jarovsky, PhD @LuizaJarovsky]

🚨BREAKING: The European Parliament has just APPROVED the AI Act. What everyone should know:

➵ The AI Act follows a risk-based approach. Some AI systems are banned, such as those involving:

- Cognitive behavioral manipulation of people or specific vulnerable groups;
- Social scoring: classifying people based on behavior, socioeconomic status, or personal characteristics;
- Biometric identification and categorization of people;
- Real-time and remote biometric identification systems, such as facial recognition.

➵ Some AI systems fall in the "high-risk" category, such as those involving:

- Critical infrastructures (e.g. transport) that could put the life and health of citizens at risk;
- Educational or vocational training that may determine the access to education and professional course of someone’s life (e.g. scoring of exams);
- Safety components of products (e.g. AI application in robot-assisted surgery);
- Employment, management of workers, and access to self-employment (e.g. CV-sorting software for recruitment procedures);
- Essential private and public services (e.g. credit scoring denying citizens opportunity to obtain a loan);
law enforcement that may interfere with people’s fundamental rights (e.g. evaluation of the reliability of evidence);
- Migration, asylum, and border control management (e.g. automated examination of visa applications);
- Administration of justice and democratic processes (e.g. AI solutions to search for court rulings).

➵ High-risk AI systems will be assessed before being put on the market and also throughout their lifecycle. People will have the right to file complaints about AI systems to designated national authorities.

➵ Generative AI, like ChatGPT, will not be classified as high-risk but will have to comply with transparency requirements and EU copyright law. Some of the obligations are:

- Disclosing that the content was generated by AI;
- Designing the model to prevent it from generating illegal content;
- Publishing summaries of copyrighted data used for training.

➵ The AI Act is expected to officially become law by May or June, and its provisions will start taking effect in stages:
- 6 months later: countries will be required to ban prohibited AI systems;
- 1 year later: rules for general-purpose AI systems will start applying;
- 2 years later: the whole AI Act will be enforceable.

➵ Fines for non-compliance can be up to 35 million Euros or 7% of worldwide annual turnover.

➵ If you want to learn more about the AI Act, including challenges, opportunities, and practical insights, join my live session with @BertuzLuca, @JcMalgieri & @RistoUuk on April 4th (register using the link below).

[Silvia @smourapina]

@EliotJacobson @LeonSimons8 You may have already addressed this previously, so I apologize in advance for asking, but I'm curious about the rationale behind your choice of the time period (1982-2011) as a reference point.

[Silvia @smourapina]

@danielbryantuk Thank you so much!!

[Silvia @smourapina]

@datamattsson Thank you so much, glad you enjoyed it!

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

This is brilliant. If your employer tweets about #IWD2022, @PayGapApp will tweet the gender pay gap for that company. 😱 This is not going well for a LOT of firms

[Oleg Šelajev 🇪🇪🧊🐳 @shelajev]

System.out.println would never do that to you. Just saying

[Silvia @smourapina]

This talk is pure genius!!

[StormForge @StormForgeIO]

We have our snacks ready to go.
🍿🥨🍫🥧🧀🍟🍕🍩🍪🍎

[James Clear @JamesClear]

You can increase your good luck by how you choose to respond.

[Silvia @smourapina]

@LorenzoPilia Amazing! Thanks for sharing

[Silvia @smourapina]

This page exists:
https://t.co/I0ecl9LhVj

[Silvia @smourapina]

@markyjackson5 Doing my best to be! Hope you are too, enjoy our day :)

[Silvia @smourapina]

Happy birthday @markyjackson5 🎂! All the best to you

[Silvia @smourapina]

Current mood: listening to the full discography of The Smiths on repeat

[Verónica ✨ @maria_fibonacci]

Your mind is your real home.
Take care of your mental health, *particularly* when you feel that you don't need it, so that you are prepared when shit gets rough, and you're able to love and value yourself regardless of external things, like a job ✨🖤🤘🏾

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

Everyone is struggling to hire software engineers with *some* experience. I've talked with dozens of candidates landing a new job, and companies who are still hiring successfully. Here's what companies who are still hiring in this very hot market are doing (thread):

[Nura A. Sediqe @nuraphd]

My birthright home, Herat, has fallen to the hands of the Taliban. Please pray for my family & all innocent civilians. I share so ppl realize Afghans are not an exotic news story, but ppl in your lives uncertain of how to keep their families safe.

[Taylor Poindexter @engineering_bae]

It just hit me. By leaning into salary transparency, a supportive network, and research, I have damn near tripled my yearly income in a matter of 4 years.

[Silvia @smourapina]

@vllry I would love to be included too, interested in sharing experiences!