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LONDON (AP) — Olympic organizers unveiled their strategy Friday to usage artificial intelligence successful sports, joining nan world unreserved to capitalize connected nan quickly advancing technology.
The International Olympic Committee outlined its schedule for taking advantage of AI. Officials said it could beryllium utilized to thief place promising athletes, personalize training methods and make nan games fairer by improving judging.
“Today we are making different measurement to guarantee nan characteristic of nan Olympic Games and nan relevance of sport. To do this, we person to beryllium leaders of change,” IOC President Thomas Bach said astatine a property arena successful nan velodrome astatine nan Olympic Park successful London, which hosted nan summertime games successful 2012.
“We are wished to utilization nan immense imaginable of AI successful a responsible way,” Bach said.
The IOC revealed its AI maestro scheme arsenic it gears up to clasp nan Paris Olympics, which are group to footwear disconnected successful conscionable nether 100 days.
The IOC’s AI plans besides see utilizing nan exertion to protect athletes from online harassment and to thief broadcasters amended nan viewing acquisition for group watching from home. The IOC earns billions of dollars done nan waste of broadcast authorities for nan games.
Some AI projects will beryllium rolled retired astatine nan Paris games and nan IOC has group up a moving group connected nan exertion to further thrust its take successful sport, Bach said, without being much specific.
The section organizers of nan Paris games person sparked contention pinch their plans to usage artificial intelligence for security, pinch a video surveillance strategy that includes AI-powered cameras to emblem imaginable information risks specified arsenic abandoned packages aliases crowd surges. Digital watchdog groups fearfulness that a connection to legalize smart surveillance systems, moreover if only temporarily, will infringe connected privacy, though nan French authorities insists nan systems won’t usage facial nickname technology.
Asked astir nan concerns, Bach told reporters it’s up to nan authorities successful nan big country, not nan IOC, to determine connected ”the champion devices to use to unafraid nan games.”
“What we person seen from nan French authorities and from nan authorities is that nan efforts to guarantee information successful Paris are really, connected a very wide scope, very professional. So we person each assurance successful nan French authorities,” he said.
Skier Lindsey Vonn said she was envious of nan AI-powered devices that weren’t disposable erstwhile she was starting out.
Vonn said backmost successful nan time she took notes by manus successful her capacity diary connected really different skis, boots and nan somesthesia affected her performance. Nowadays, tablets are utilized to instantly crunch overmuch much data, arsenic good arsenic springiness a side-by-side video comparison of nan champion racing line. AI tin supercharge those analytical tools, she said.
“It’s not replacing athletes, it’s not replacing coaching. But I deliberation it’s conscionable different instrumentality that tin beryllium utilized successful a affirmative measurement to execute better,” Vonn said.
The IOC has collaborated pinch Intel to scout retired imaginable athletes successful overlooked places. The tech institution took its instrumentality to Senegal, wherever they visited 5 villages and analyzed nan diversion expertise of a 1000 children, by measuring really precocious they could jump and really accelerated they could react.
Using AI to analyse nan results, “we recovered 40 that are really promising,” said Christoph Schell, Intel’s main commercialized officer.
The shortlisted kids’ results were past tally done an algorithm that recommended what sports they’d beryllium bully at, he said.
Olympic officials are besides alert of AI risks. Bach warned against allowing machines to beryllium nan eventual arbiter of a young athlete’s career. Someone who’s a “great jock successful wrestling must still person nan chance to play tennis and cannot beryllium sorted out” by nan algorithms, he said.
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AP videojournalist Kwiyeon Ha contributed to this report.
