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Women in AI: Emilia Gómez at the EU started her AI career with music


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On the academic and technical side, I’m proud of my contributions to music-specific machine learning architectures at the Music Technology Group in Barcelona, which have advanced the state of the art in the field, as it’s reflected in my citation records. The research community is so busy advancing the state of the art in terms of AI capabilities and performance and so excited to see their algorithms used in the real world that they forget to do proper evaluations, impact assessment and external audits. In this sense, the AI Act not only sets the bar for regulating artificial intelligence worldwide, but it also reflects the European emphasis on trustworthiness and transparency — enabling innovation while protecting citizens’ rights.

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