The Shape of Code

What has been preventing Artificial Intelligence being a success? Yes, you guessed it, until now ISO has not had an SC (Standards’ Committee) dealing with AI. Well, the votes are in and JTC 1/SC 42 Artificial intelligence is go.

Countries pay ISO to be members of an SC and the tax payers of: Austria, Canada, Finland, Germany, Ireland, Switzerland and United States have the pleasure of being founding member countries of SC42.

What standards/technical-reports are those attending SC42 meetings going to working on?

The two document titles I have seen so far are: “Artificial Intelligence Concepts and Terminology” and “Framework for Artificial Intelligence (AI) Systems Using Machine Learning (ML)”.

I hope the terminology document arrives in plenty of time, before the machines take over. The ISO Standard for Year 2000 terminology arrived in December 1999 (there was a flurry of emails desperately trying to row-back on this document).

Want to join up? Wael William Diab is the chairperson.