Reporter @algorithmwatch@chaos.social
Ces dernières semaines, l'Estonie, l'Allemagne et le Canada ont lancé des initiatives pour étalonner les modèles d'IA à l'aune des usages de leurs administrations.
Rien de tel en Europe francophone, alors que le besoin est criant: le mois passé, le ministère des finances a changé en catastrophe son modèle de langage après s'être aperçu que Qwen était aligné sur les vues du gouvernement chinois.
À lire chez Gargant'IA: https://www.gargantia.eu/etalonnage-de-lia-lestonie-montre-la-voie/
There's a new AI unicorn-to-be in town: "Good Husband" https://www.higoodhusband.com/
Thankfully, whatever LLM coded the turd let the full prompt in the front-end, so we know the brilliant minds behind only send the user input coated with instructions like "Never sound like a guy performing empathy".
J'ai demandé à 4 modèles de langage où étaient les Français les plus compétents. Tous concordent : à Neuilly-sur-Seine 😬
https://www.gargantia.eu/pour-lia-les-francais-les-plus-competents-sont-a-neuilly-sur-seine/
This is for the "too good to be true" category. Turns out Palantir surged because some analysts changed their rating from "hold" to "buy"
Aujourd'hui dans mon infolettre Gargant'IA: Un organisme parapublic de Provence lance un appel d'offres de 112 millions d'euros pour de l'IA qui va de la surveillance automatisée à l'aide à la décision médicale.
Des documents que j'ai pu consulter, 0 euros sont destinés à l'audit ou à l'analyse critique de ces systèmes.
D'autres régions ont fait des choix beaucoup plus frugaux et plus transparents.
https://www.gargantia.eu/112-millions-deuros-pour-introduire-lia-dans-les-villages-de-provence/
Physical thermometers are the best remedy against the shifting baseline syndrome (unless they've changed the values on it since I last visited Copenhagen).
📷 CC-BY-SA Dan Lundberg
Le Monde qui écrit "Il faisait aussi chaud mardi à Paris que pendant le terrible été 1940"... Je pensais qu'ils avaient encore des secrétaires de rédaction mais faut croire que non. (Température max en juin 40: 29°C).
✊🏻 I'm very happy that my employer now has a Betriebsrat (a works council, which has more power than in other EU countries).
Things I learned while setting it up:
- Don't underestimate the resolve of colleagues. I started by thinking that roughly one in four in the company would appreciate the effort. Almost everyone did.
- Protect yourself. A Tatsachenbescheinigung from a notary offers protection against firing in the preliminary phase (before the official announcement) and costs 50€.
- It's complicated. The "how-to" booklet from the Ver.di union runs about 200 pages, much of it in German legalese. You'll need help.
A silver lining? The last time a superpower pitifully lost a "war of choice", it ceased to exist less than 3 years later, in December 1991.
@guigui3000@mastodon.tetaneutral.net @M0tty@mamot.fr Well I'd need to drop everything in one go. I have:
Here's the reason why I bought these: https://dataharvest26.sched.com/event/2K5LP/funforensics-what-can-you-squeeze-out-of-a-second-hand-laptop?iframe=yes&w=100%&sidebar=yes&bg=no
🇧🇪 I'll have 5 old laptops to give away in Mechelen or Bruxelles on May 30 or 31.
Do you know anyone who might be interested?
Now this is funny: The German government claims that AI will increase GDP by 11% by 2030 (start date not provided), based on a PwC study which the consultancy seems to have itself retracted 🤔
German gov't: https://www.digitale-technologien.de/DT/Navigation/DE/Themen/KuenstlicheIntelligenz/KuenstlicheIntelligenz.html
PwC study (404): https://www.pwc.de/de/business-analytics/sizing-the-price-final-juni-2018.pdf
🇫🇷 French police have an app to perform face recognition on anyone in the street, based on a database of 9 million photos. It's built by a German company.
It's also exactly what ICE in the US is building with Palantir.
Except the French have been at it since 2020.
Not everyone's on board with that European digital sovereignty thing:
🇫🇮 Finland's social security Kela, advised by PwC, bought an AI system from Salesforce to process almost all disbursement decisions (3000€ per year per Finn on average). All of the agency's systems will move to AWS.
Oh, and they'll cut their workforce by 2,400 (out of 8,000) too.
Exclusive from @algorithmwatch@chaos.social : Frontex is building a chatbot to increase the number of people who choose to "self-deport".
https://algorithmwatch.org/en/frontex-is-building-an-ai-chatbot-app-to-encourage-repatriations/
- The chatbot is only fed information in English but shall answer in any language - including, possibly, legal advice.
- It's built on top of an off-the-shelf LLM and “simply fed with a set of data,” according to the agency that develops it.
- Frontex says it's no “high-risk use of AI” so it's unlikely that the app will be thoroughly tested.
