2024-07-19 07:05:02
First full use of artificial intelligence in the Olympics
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The Paris Olympics, which will open on the 26th, will be the first ‘AI Olympics’ where artificial intelligence (AI) will be fully featured in sports. In addition to the roles that have been applied to sports in the past, such as measuring records that are determined by decimal seconds and providing 3D images, AI is expected to be used in all directions, including protecting the social network services (SNS) of participating athletes, carbon neutrality, and safety monitoring. Cutting-edge science and technology will also be showcased for athletes who must battle the sweltering heat of Paris in July and August.
● Referee judgment, sports broadcasting more accurate and vivid
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced the “IOC AI Agenda,” a strategy for using AI in sports, in April. In May, the IOC announced on its website that “AI has been used to support referees and judges since the 2018 Pyeongchang Olympics, and will be applied to multiple events at the 2024 Paris Olympics.”
At the Paris Olympics, AI provides additional information for more accurate scoring and judgment by the referees, and even has the function of analyzing the game. A representative example is the AI-based computer vision technology applied by Omega, the official Olympic timekeeper company, to the Paris Olympics. A timekeeper is a clock device that measures the records of athletes in sports games. Computer vision technology can track the athletes’ movements in real time during the game with an optical sensor and recreate the game process in 3D.
Computer vision technology is expected to be applied to gymnastics, pole vaulting, tennis, diving, and beach volleyball. It can see the game from various angles, so it can measure minute details such as the height of a gymnast’s jump, whether a beach volleyball player’s hand cleared the net, and the distance between a pole vaulter and the bar. AI can track a gymnast’s skeleton and analyze the angle of the foot in depth.
The AI caster that NBC, the exclusive US broadcaster of the Paris Olympics, will introduce is also drawing attention. Peacock, an online video service (OTT) provided by NBC, will edit the live broadcast during the Olympics using AI and provide up to 7 million customized highlight match videos across the US. The videos will be narrated by the voice of NBC’s legendary caster Al Michaels during his prime. This is done through AI that learned his voice.
● AI protects players and monitors carbon emissions
The IOC will introduce an AI-based online abuse prevention SNS monitoring system built in over 35 languages. When monitoring Olympic-related SNS posts, if a defamatory post is uploaded to the 15,000 or so participating athletes, the post will be deleted in cooperation with SNS platforms such as X, Instagram, Facebook, and TikTok before the athletes see it. This is the first time that an athlete protection system has been officially introduced in an online environment at the Olympics. The IOC stated that “indiscriminate defamation on SNS poses a great threat to the mental and emotional state of athletes as well as their bodies and the results of the game.”
AI is also playing a role in reducing carbon emissions. Alibaba Cloud, a Chinese cloud company, is applying Energy Expert, an AI-based system that helps minimize power consumption at the Paris Olympics. It transfers power-related data such as power consumption, power demand, and weather conditions of 35 Olympic stadiums to a single cloud and then suggests an optimal plan to reduce power consumption.
In addition, the French National Assembly adopted the ‘Law on the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games’ in April and authorized the use of intelligent closed-circuit (CC) TVs in public places. It uses AI technology to monitor dangerous movements in real time. Drone-type CCTVs will also monitor the area around the stadium from the sky. The opening and closing ceremonies, which are expected to attract hundreds of thousands of spectators, are the main targets of surveillance.
● Cutting-edge technology to help fight the heat
The average temperature in Paris in late July exceeds 40 degrees. To overcome the heat, American athletes use the cutting-edge cooling equipment, ‘Coolmit’, developed by Stanford University in the US. Coolmit, a device worn on the hand like a glove, cools the blood in the athlete’s body, removes heat from the body, and circulates the blood to the heart and muscles. Coolmit was developed based on Stanford University research results that heat can be dissipated quickly and efficiently through hairless skin surfaces like palms.
Japanese volleyball and track and field athletes will compete in new clothing made of a material that can absorb infrared rays. The infrared camera will take pictures of the athletes’ underwear and body lines through the thin clothing they wear. There was an issue with people taking ‘secret photos’ of the athletes with infrared cameras at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. They could wear multiple layers of regular fabric, but the athletes decided to wear these new clothing made of a material considering the sweltering heat in Paris. In addition, cutting-edge science and technology such as flying taxis called flying cars are expected to appear at the Paris Olympics.
Lee Chae-rin, Donga Science Reporter [email protected]
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