What if, after the Enlightenment, France also became an artificial intelligence (AI) nation? This Wednesday, the Court of Auditors published a report on the government’s strategy to conquer this revolutionary technology. With the first part being quite critical of the initiatives taken during the 2010s. But the document’s subtitle (“Consolidate the successes of public AI policy, expand its scope”) suggests that all these efforts were not in vain.
The judges on rue Cambon (often) do something detrimental, when it comes to public policy: strategy. AI development efforts in France will be implemented in 2018 with the acronym: SNIA, which means National Strategy for Artificial Intelligence. With a four-year first phase essentially devoted to research. “The management and implementation of this phase is based on complex interactions between many actors,” the report authors wrote. The heterogeneous funds that the State devoted to this ultimately amounted to 1.3 billion euros and their monitoring proved incomplete. »
