(Informative)
The mission of the international, unaffiliated, not-for-profit Moving Picture, Audio and Data Coding by Artificial Intelligence (MPAI) Standards Developing Organisation is the development of AI-enabled data coding Technical Specifications enabling AI-based products, applications, and services qualified by their level of interoperability.
In addition to these MPAI includes, as part of its mission, the development of appropriate Reference Software enabling implementers and general users to evaluate MPAI Technical Specifications and Conformance Testing Specifications providing the means to test the conformity of an Implementation.
As conformity of an Implementation to a Technical Specification does not fully cover all important aspects of an AI-based implementation, MPAI has developed the notion of Performance, defined as a set of attributes, such as:
- Quality – measure of how well an implementation performs.
- Bias – the performance of an implementation differs for different users and data sources.
- Legal compliance – the possibility to use an implementation in a jurisdiction.
- Ethical compliance – the performance of an implementation respects an ethical norm.
Therefore, MPAI has decided that Performance Assessment should be added to Technical Specification, Reference Software, and Conformance Assessment. The set of four specification is called MPAI Standard. Of course the different specifications may become available at different times.
So far, the availability of a standard has caused the birth of an ecosystem composed of at least four elements: issuer, implementers, conformance testers, and users of a standard. The case of MPAI Standards is more complex and requires significant extensions. Technical Specification: Governance of the MPAI Ecosystem (MPAI-GME) V2.0 specifies how the MPAI Ecosystem is composed and managed.
In the following, Terms beginning with a capital letter are defined in Table 1 if they are specific to MPAI-GME V2.0. All MPAI-defined Terms are accessible online.
The chapters and the annexes of this Technical Specification are Normative, unless they are labelled as Informative.
