Swimming, soccer, and surveillance: Paris preps for an AI-monitored Olympics

Image caption: Hundreds of thousands of athletes and visitors attending this year’s Olympics could have their movements analyzed by a real-time AI video surveillance tool. Image credit: Clemens Bilan / AFP via Getty Images. Article by Mack DeGeurin. Popular Science – July 18, 2024.

When this year’s Summer Olympics  kicks off in Paris, France next week, nearly 100 floats filled with the world’s leading athletes are expected to chug their way across the Seine River. Around half a million fans will cheer as their nation’s sporting ambassadors pass their way through the Louvre, by the Eiffel Tower, and a travel guide book worth of other historical monuments. But fans won’t be the only ones watching. Thousands of CCTV cameras overlooking the river will monitor the proceedings in real-time. […]

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