France 'back in race' for AI, Macron tells tech leaders after Paris summit

The Manila Times

France 'back in race' for AI, Macron tells tech leaders after Paris summit  France is "in the race, at full speed" regarding artificial intelligence (AI), French President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday, February 11, after an AI summit that saw the country reaping more than 100 billion euros investments in the sector.  World leaders gathered on Tuesday for the second day and plenary session of the summit, as US willingness to sign onto a statement championing sustainable AI remained in question.  Hours after President Emmanuel Macron declared France was in the AI race and Europe was eager for business, representatives of nearly 100 countries including China, India and the US prepared to meet and determine if competing national interests could be reconciled.   REUTERS VIDEO  Subscribe to The Manila Times Channel - https://tmt.ph/YTSubscribe  Visit our website at https://www.manilatimes.net     Follow us:  Facebook - https://tmt.ph/facebook  Instagram - https://tmt.ph/instagram  Twitter - https://tmt.ph/twitter  DailyMotion - https://tmt.ph/dailymotion    Subscribe to our Digital Edition - https://tmt.ph/digital    Check out our Podcasts:  Spotify - https://tmt.ph/spotify  Apple Podcasts - https://tmt.ph/applepodcasts  Amazon Music - https://tmt.ph/amazonmusic  Deezer: https://tmt.ph/deezer  Stitcher: https://tmt.ph/stitcher Tune In: https://tmt.ph/tunein   #TheManilaTimes #WorldNews #France #AI

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00:30No, don't move, guys, don't move.

00:46Without sound.

00:47Without sound.

00:59We have all the phones, it's great.

01:01We have all the phones, it's great.

01:10We have built it over the last few years.

01:12We need to be one of the nations that trains the most talent.

01:15So this summit is the summit, in a way, of the acceleration of the French ecosystem.

01:19We are in the top 5.

01:21We will confirm and even raise our positions.

01:23And it is the summit of a European awakening.

01:26We announced this morning 200 billion euros of European investment.

01:2950 billion, the Commission.

01:32150 billion, the large European companies that we mobilized yesterday at the Elysee.

01:36And here too, we are back in the fight and we are accelerating.

01:41And I say this as neither a great naive nor a technophobe or a sceptic.

01:46Because these are all the debates we have.

01:49But why do I want so much to be at this summit and to be with you today?

01:54First of all, because I want us and our children to be able to choose.

01:58And so if we let the Americans and the Chinese have the champions on their own,

02:03we will be sure of one thing, we may be able to have the best regulations in the world,

02:07but we will not regulate anything.

02:09So we are in the race.

02:13We are full of fire and we will go all the way.

02:16We believe in innovation.

02:18We want more innovation in France and Europe.

02:20We want to accelerate.

02:22But we also want, through this innovation, to carry the model of society in which we believe.

02:27A plural, open, generous, free, equitable model

02:34that takes into account the question of climate and the question of gender.

02:37This is what we believe in, this is why you are fighting.

02:40And so we will continue to give you all the means to accelerate, go faster,

02:45be in the battle and above all continue to have a maximum of ambition.

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