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Should be trivial to spot by just looking at their water bill, no?
Low hanging fruit are the ones that aren't covered.
legitimately the shittiest, most boring, and most unimaginatively dystopian use for AI I have ever seen.
Why? Taxes is what sends children to school, pays for hospitals and funds the infrastructure everyone uses. People love to hear about AI breakthroughs that could transform education or health, why should they not be happy about this? I have many doubts about the actual technical solution, but I wouldn't discard the work because it's for taxation purpose.
This project https://www.gas.scigrid.de/ used a similar approach to map gas pipelines
"AI" Imagine being charged 24 million euros ( https://www.01net.com/actualites/piscines-non-declarees-la-t... ) by Capgemini, known for having fucked up every single public -private partnership in France so they can just run OpenCV on satellite pictures, while being paid for a THIRTY PERCENT ERROR RATE
Scheme to be extended across the country after trial in nine departments led to extra €10m in tax receipts So far it cost 2.5 times what it made. But tbh i don't think the 30% error rate is relevant. How many photos did it analyze and how many did it select for human review? Unless ... google being involved ... there was no human review.
The DGFiP is hit or miss with these projects, and they rarely hit well.
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Why? Taxes is what sends children to school, pays for hospitals and funds the infrastructure everyone uses. People love to hear about AI breakthroughs that could transform education or health, why should they not be happy about this? I have many doubts about the actual technical solution, but I wouldn't discard the work because it's for taxation purpose.
From my understanding they paid CapGemini €24M for this project in order to net €10M in taxes.
Pools are good for cooling down in the summer. Is it better if they use electricity and A/C instead?
The worst thing is that other countries are copying this anti-pool thing because it's populist .
legitimately the shittiest, most boring, and most unimaginatively dystopian use for AI I have ever seen.
Why? Taxes is what sends children to school, pays for hospitals and funds the infrastructure everyone uses. People love to hear about AI breakthroughs that could transform education or health, why should they not be happy about this? I have many doubts about the actual technical solution, but I wouldn't discard the work because it's for taxation purpose.
I m not sure if the idea of going after pools is a good one though. Is the water shortages really that big that people are not allowed to even have blow-up tubs anymore? Pools are good for cooling down in the summer. Is it better if they use electricity and A/C instead? The worst thing is that other countries are copying this anti-pool thing because it's populist .
I m not sure if the idea of going after pools is a good one though. Is the water shortages really that big that people are not allowed to even have blow-up tubs anymore? Pools are good for cooling down in the summer. Is it better if they use electricity and A/C instead? The worst thing is that other countries are copying this anti-pool thing because it's populist .
It's not even going after pools in particular, it's just that pools raise the property tax. you're supposed to ask your city if you can build that pool, and your taxes will grow in consequence. Undeclared, no taxes.
And yes, filling up pools is banned in most of the country right now because we're going through a year long drought.