2024-07-29 21:41:08
Faster, higher, stronger” – also in technology? From the Artificial intelligence (AI) to the networks of telecommunications of new generation, the companies participating in the Paris Olympics They aim to apply the Olympic motto to promote their innovations to a global audience.
In addition to the benefits at the level of corporate image that comes from being associated with one of the most followed events on the planet, technological giants such as Alibaba, Atos, Intel, Cisco, Samsungwill be presented in Paris-2024 “innovative concepts” aimed at “changing the face of sport,” said the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on its powerful partners.
In practice, Paris-2024 will be the first Olympic event with ample examples of the application of this technology.
An innovation that will allow for the generation of customized and personalized video summaries of events almost in real time, “creating efficiencies in production and editing” for Olympic Broadcasting Services (OBS), the audiovisual subsidiary of the IOC.
Led by the American giant Intel, this innovation will allow to automatically edit the key moments of 14 subjectsaccording to the preferences of the audiovisual rights holders and the target audience in their digital platforms and social networks.
For this new service, the models have been trained sport by sport with content taken from the vast video archives managed by OBS, which plans to produce a total of 11,000 hours of content during the Paris Games.
In addition to a chatbot For athletes, “designed to provide quick and easy answers to frequently asked questions,” the IOC will also have an AI-based system to monitor thousands of social media accounts.
In addition, Paris 2024 will be a 100% Olympics 5G, with “faster” telecommunications networks and the introduction of 5G private (a mobile network tailored to a specific geographic area through the use of a frequency).
This is a welcome technological innovation to ensure the reliability (very high bandwidth, secure communications) of the coverage of the opening ceremony on the Seine, the largest production “ever made” in the history of the Games in terms of equipment (with more than 100 camera systems, eight drones, three helicopters and 200 smartphones deployed on the 85 boats that will carry the athletes’ delegations on a 6-kilometer parade). /AFP
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