Have you seen a virus? AI-generated gymnastics videoThe bizarre amalgam of flying, twisting limbs defies the laws of physics and anatomy and serves as a humorous reminder of the limitations of AI. While these AI gymnasts won’t match the world-class human gymnasts who will compete in the 2024 Paris Olympics, we can expect to see AI and other innovative technologies used in new and unexpected ways at this year’s Olympics.
Behind the scenes, cutting-edge technology is helping athletes perform at their best and ensuring audiences around the world can enjoy the action. From analyzing scoring data to implementing recommendation systems to help fans watch their favorite events, here are some fascinating ways technology, coding, and AI will be used at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
AI Surveillance Initiative
In April, a group of experts from various fields, including AI researchers, athletes, and technical personnel, Olympic AI Agenda To govern the use of AI in the Olympic Movement, the Commission identified potential risks of AI and established best practices to mitigate them, such as guidelines for reducing human bias in judging and refereeing, and providing individualized coaching to athletes. The Commission also detailed how AI could streamline event organization, transportation, and employee training. Read more about the Olympic AI agenda here. here.
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Preparing for Cyber Attacks
Cybersecurity teams for the 2024 Olympics are preparing for an unprecedented number of attack attempts — potentially eight to 12 times the 450 million “security events” that occurred during the Tokyo 2021 Games. The New York Times reportTo combat these threats, Paris 2024 organizers are running large-scale “war games,” exercises in which ethical hackers test systems and offer bug bounties for any vulnerabilities they find.
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Statistical analysis to determine fairness
Olympic judges are also judged, and statistical tools are used to measure factors that affect the accuracy and fairness of their judging, which is especially important in sports with subjective scoring systems like gymnastics.
Led by data scientist Dr. Hugues Mercier Ongoing projects The performance of Olympic judges is tracked over time, taking into account variables such as fatigue and equipment difficulties. This data is used to rank individual judges and ensure the overall quality of judging is superior, supported by comprehensive data analysis.
AI-generated expert commentary
Highlights of this year’s Olympics AI-Generated Narration By the legendary sportscaster Al MichaelsThat’s thanks to a new initiative from NBCUniversal and Peacock: Instead of a live announcer summarizing the events in real time, an AI program trained on Al’s past NBC clips will create a daily highlights video, narrated by an AI that recreates his voice.
Streaming and Recommendation Systems
AI is also changing how people around the world will watch the 2024 Olympics from home. Streaming platforms Peacock has added new features Subscribers can customize reels of their favorite events and the types of highlights they want to see, such as viral clips or gold medal moments, and the AI creates these personalized 10-minute packages every night (with a human monitoring the quality).
If you want to learn how streaming platforms (such as Netflix and Spotify) use machine learning to create personalized recommendations, take the skill path “Building Recommendation Systems.”
Using data to judge gymnastics competitions
of Examination support system (JSS) uses multiple high-definition cameras positioned around the gymnastics apparatus to capture a 3D view of the gymnasts’ performance, focusing specifically on their joints. Trained on video footage From a selection of 8,000 different gymnastics moves, the system can match them against the official rulebook, the “Scoring Standards,” which detail how gymnastics moves should be performed and scored. The JSS can identify around 2,000 different gymnastics elements with around 90% accuracy, on par with human judges.
It is unclear whether JSS will be used in the Olympics, but all of the equipment at the World Championships, which serve as an Olympic qualifier, was made with JSS.
Protecting athletes from online abuse
The International Olympic Committee has introduced a system that uses AI. Protecting athletes from online abuse During the Paris 2024 Olympics, the system will monitor thousands of social media accounts in real time, flagging abusive messages in more than 35 languages before athletes see them. It is part of a wider safeguarding initiative that also includes mental health support and wellbeing resources for athletes.
Accurate Review System
of Decision Review System DRS in cricket is an advanced technology that helps verify and confirm umpire’s decisions during a match. DRS employs various high-tech tools like ball tracking, ultra-motion cameras, acoustic sensors, thermal imaging, etc. When a team requests a review, advanced technology is put to use. For example, some of the systems include: Hawkeye or Virtual Eye It analyses the ball’s trajectory and delivery point to determine whether the ball hits the stumps regardless of the batsman’s position.
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