Explanatory memorandum on the updated OECD definition of an AI system

People commenting on the legal definition in the new California Act (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:...

It's not solely the C standard that comes with a rationale. (-: