By using artificial ielligence algorithms to ideify illegal pools, the French governme has managed to collect about 10 million euros more in taxes. In France, property tax is calculated based on the real value of a property, so homeowners who don’t declare a pool pay hundreds of euros less in tax.
This project started a few mohs ago and for this purpose aerial photos recorded by the French National Institute of Geographical and Forestry Information are used. After ideifying the pools, the information obtained is compared with the data related to the tax and real estate administration in order to ideify illegal pools.
The scope of the project is currely very limited and currely only used for 9 cities. But even in these cities, thanks to artificial ielligence, 20,356 illegal swimming pools have been discovered. According to the estimates, it is said that by 2020 there will be about 3.2 million private swimming pools in the homes of French people, although after the Corona epidemic, employees staying at home and other conditions, the popularity of using these types of swimming pools has increased significaly. has been found
The use of private swimming pools is a coroversial issue in France as the coury struggles with drought and some rivers have run dry. Now the French tax administration was to expand the use of artificial ielligence to ideify swimming pools, and it is said that this will lead to an increase of 40 million euros in taxes received.
Early reports on the project indicated that the machine learning software had an unusually high error rate of 30 perce, mistaking other architectural features—such as solar panels—for pools. But now most of these problems have been solved and as a result the accuracy of these algorithms has improved.
Source: The Verge
