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President of France Emmanuel Macron Talks About Nation's New AI Strategy (wired.com)
Earlier this week, Emmanuel Macron, President of France, pledged to spend $1.9 billion over the next five years and allow expanded data-sharing to help make France a leader in artificial intelligence. In an interview with Wired, Emmanuel Macron, President of France, explained why he is making big investments to bring France into the "winner takes all" race with the U.S. and China on artificial intelligence. An interesting quote, "At some point, as citizens, people will say, 'I want to be sure that all of this personal data is not used against me, but used ethically, and that everything is monitored. I want to understand what is behind this algorithm that plays a role in my life." An excerpt from the story: AI will raise a lot of issues in ethics, in politics, it will question our democracy and our collective preferences. For instance, if you take healthcare: you can totally transform medical care making it much more predictive and personalized if you get access to a lot of data. We will open our data in France. I made this decision and announced it this afternoon. But the day you start dealing with privacy issues, the day you open this data and unveil personal information, you open a Pandora's Box, with potential use cases that will not be increasing the common good and improving the way to treat you.
In particular, it's creating a potential for all the players to select you. This can be a very profitable business model: this data can be used to better treat people, it can be used to monitor patients, but it can also be sold to an insurer that will have intelligence on you and your medical risks, and could get a lot of money out of this information. The day we start to make such business out of this data is when a huge opportunity becomes a huge risk. It could totally dismantle our national cohesion and the way we live together. This leads me to the conclusion that this huge technological revolution is in fact a political revolution.
In particular, it's creating a potential for all the players to select you. This can be a very profitable business model: this data can be used to better treat people, it can be used to monitor patients, but it can also be sold to an insurer that will have intelligence on you and your medical risks, and could get a lot of money out of this information. The day we start to make such business out of this data is when a huge opportunity becomes a huge risk. It could totally dismantle our national cohesion and the way we live together. This leads me to the conclusion that this huge technological revolution is in fact a political revolution.
Alogrithmic transparency can only be a good thing. When AI makes a decision that affects you, you should have a right to understand how and why the decision was made, and to challenge it. That will prevent a lot of the problems we have already started to see with things like algorithmic sentencing of criminals.
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None of this matters. He has no children, is married to a woman twice his age, and has been actively replacing the population of France with violent religious ghouls from distant, evil lands.
It sounds like a Tolkien plot, but it's reality. France will be a third world shithole in a generation, wracked with political and religious violence, with Jews and Christians executed in their homes and businesses, like what is already happening across Africa and the Middle East.
You'll pooh-pooh me as a racist, and ignore the acid attacks, grenade attacks, mass rapes, and mass murders already committed by the ghouls. You deserve your fate.
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"At some point, as citizens, people will say, 'I want to be sure that all of this personal data is not used against me, but used ethically, and that everything is monitored.
Well, you can't have all you're asking for but I can guarantee that, yes, everything will be monitored.
Meh. AFAIC it's only 'winner takes all' if you decide that being #2 isn't worth playing any more.
Can you imagine Apple deciding to exit the laptop business just because it can't manage to break through a 10% market share?
But ask me again in ten years.
Just a few bugs to work out.
Have gnu, will travel.
Macron effectively said he is going to oppose the EU privacy framework in order to sell the data to the highest bidder under the guise of improving "AI", a system that thus far doesn't really exist, we've got some good classifiers but nothing remotely resembling intelligence.
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Will the AI wear a beret, talk with a French accent, have a thin moustache and smoke? And say Oui all the time?
Oh, right. Do you really think AI builders are really going to publish their algorithms for examination under the transparency banner?
You greatly over-estimate the altruism of businesses and governments.
Scruting the inscrutable for over 50 years.
Who is surprised he'd go out of his way to fuck everyone else in France too?
That's a better title for this story. Macron, who reports to his master Lord Rothschild, is indicating to us that the Rothschild bank is putting a large investment bet into the AI space.
The pace of change is turning into an unheard of speed. More will change in our lives, beliefs and social systems in the next three years than it as in the last 1,000 years. To say that confusion and fear will be a huge problem is a mild statement. Our schools and universities will be challenged beyond our ability to understand what is going on. Professions will vanish. Types of taxation will be quite different than they are today. The human race is about to run into a collision with reality. Everything you are used to is about to completely change. It is all for the best but the shock of rapid change is something the world has never had to deal with in the past.
Is it an April fool's joke or not? Macron is so good as talking nonsense that I cannot tell.
One thing that makes me suspect it is a joke is that he talks about spending money. Angela would not let him do so.
"Winner takes all race with the US and China"
Build a case, Mr. Macron, that it is a zero sum game and that it is not a rising tide that floats all boats. If used for the common good, AI should benefit all of mankind.
Clearly, with the broken state of politics currently in the USA, the US stands to fall far behind rival nations and allied nations that invest heavily in artificial intelligence.
The US government does not have a strong policy to invest heavily in artificial intelligence. That's what it will take to win that "winner takes all" race to benefit all of mankind.