The French government discovered 20,356 unregistered pools in nine out of 96 French metropolitan districts by using AI software developed by Google and Capgemini.
More Than 20,000 Unaccredited Pools Were Discovred by an AI in France
The French government has identified thousands of hidden swimming pools through the use of AI software, collecting a violation fee of about $10 million.
The Google and Capgemini-created technology have undergone investigations from nine French departments a year ago. It can detect pools using aerial photographs and cross-reference them with databases used for property registration.
When figuring out housing taxes in France, the rental value of a property is used. Homeowners who don't report swimming pools could save additional fees that could reach hundreds of euros. On Monday, August 29, the government found 20,356 pools, and they will continue to search the whole country.
The system analyzed only nine of the 96 metropolitan areas in France as its scope is limited. Additionally, early reports said that the machine's learning algorithms commonly confused solar panel installations with swimming pools and had a 30% error rate.
Regardless, Le Fisc asserts that the issues have been resolved. In fact, it plans to utilize the technology in the future to identify additional unreported and taxable home improvements, like expansions and annexes.
French environmentalists have pushed for the outlawing of private swimming pools in response to the warm summer weather that has led to drought and water shortages in the country. This has resulted in a crackdown.
In France, it has been precited that by 2020, there will likely be 3.2 million private swimming pools in the country. Some projections said it may have increased considering the surge of individuals working from home during lockdowns and the rising temperatures across Europe in July.
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A US and China Giant Tech Firms are Developing an AI Software as One
As the AI development industry continues to foster, engineers from Microsoft and ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok in China, are forging collaboration. This is amidst the competition between the US and China for AI superiority has politicians worried about national security, the economy, and American prosperity.
Jiaxin Shan, a software engineer at ByteDance, and Ali Kanso, a lead software engineer at Microsoft, spoke about their advancements at the Ray Summit this week in San Francisco. They are teaming up for software they called KubeRay to help businesses operate AI applications more effectively.
Anyscale, which has assisted in KubeRay's development, put up Ray Summit. It is a Ray-based firm that was co-founded by Ion Stoica, a professor of computer science at Berkeley.
As Shan and Kanso outlined KubeRay's fundamentals, they emphasized the technology's advantages for distributed computing that processes the execution AI applications across several systems.
Businesses cooperate and combine their technological abilities to contribute to open source projects, which have gained popularity and built numerous firms.
When Microsoft launched a bid for ByteDance's TikTok in 2020 in response to threats from then-US President Trump to ban the app, the Microsoft-ByteDance collaboration developed a partnership. However, their unsuccessful transaction, in the opinion of Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, is the oddest project he has ever worked on.
Given the conflict between the United States and China over AI and intellectual property and worries about how technological innovations can be used for spying and privacy breaches, the partnership between Microsoft and ByteDance is noteworthy.
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