France to spend €655m on AI and a single chatbot for the whole civil service

France wants its civil servants to share a chatbot. On Monday, Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu announced an additional €655m for artificial intelligence, the headline use of which is a single sovereign conversational assistant intended for every public agent in the country, roughly a million people. The assistant, according to the announcement, is meant to help with […] This story continues at The Next Web