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AI system

Yapay zekâ sistemi

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An AI system is a machine-based system that infers from inputs how to generate outputs such as predictions, content, recommendations, or decisions for explicit or implicit objectives.

Review status: 2027-02-23

Technical explanation

It combines inputs with one or more models or other computational components; its outputs can influence physical or virtual environments.

Conceptual boundaries

An AI model is a component used to make inferences from inputs to produce outputs, and a system may contain more than one model or other computational approaches.

Provider-neutral example

A document-routing system can combine incoming text, a trained model, and escalation rules to suggest a destination queue.

Limitations

This entry uses the AI Act’s terminology for an AI system and does not state a legal-compliance conclusion.

Related concepts

Atomic claims and evidence

  1. 1.1Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 (Artificial Intelligence Act)
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    Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 (Artificial Intelligence Act)
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    Authoritative source
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    Article 3(1)
    Supported claim
    The EU AI Act defines an AI system as a machine-based system that infers from inputs how to generate specified kinds of outputs for explicit or implicit objectives.
    Last verification
    Review due
    Scope limitation
    This is the Act’s definition for that Regulation, not the only possible scientific definition.
  2. 2.1OECD, Explanatory Memorandum on the Updated OECD Definition of an AI System
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    OECD, Explanatory Memorandum on the Updated OECD Definition of an AI System
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    Building AI systems and models, AI model paragraph, p. 7
    Supported claim
    An AI model is a core component of an AI system used to make inferences from inputs to produce outputs.
    Last verification
    Review due
    Scope limitation
    A system may contain more than one model or use other computational approaches.