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AI is taking over

NBC announced they will use AI to replicate Al Michaels' voice for the 2024 Paris Olympics coverage. This AI-generated voice will deliver personalized daily Olympic recaps on Peacock, NBC's streaming service.

Here's how it'll work: Peacock subscribers can get custom 10-minute highlight reels of each day's events. The AI, trained on Michaels' past NBC work, will narrate these recaps. It's designed to match his signature style and expertise.

Al Michaels himself was pretty skeptical at first. But when he heard the AI version? He called it "astonishing" and "almost 2% off perfect." That's high praise from a broadcasting legend.

But that’s not all - AI is changing the game for athletes and coaches as well. They are using it to analyze performance data and create personalized training programs. This helps them perform better while reducing injury risks.

AI has been used to assist judges and referees since PyeongChang 2018, providing additional information for more accurate scoring. It will be in place for several sports at Paris 2024.

The International Olympic Committee is using AI to protect athletes from online abuse. An AI-powered monitoring system will analyze social media posts during the Games, with abusive messages flagged for removal."

The Big Picture: We're witnessing a major shift in how big sports organizations and networks use AI. It's not just experiments anymore - they're going in deep.

As AI models continues to advance, we'll likely see more AI-generated or AI-assisted content in sports and beyond.

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• OpenAI acquired Multi, an enterprise-focused, video-first collaboration platform.

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• Apple decided against using Meta's AI models on iPhones due to privacy concerns.

AI

• Perplexity's AI is stuck in a misinformation loop.

• Instagram's letting some creators make AI versions of themselves.

• Apple, Microsoft working on Small Language Models.

• Meta has launched the LLM Compiler, trained on 546B tokes.

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• NASA astronauts to stay longer on the ISS to troubleshoot issues with Boeing's Starliner capsule.

• Gene therapy halts progression of rare genetic condition in young boy.

• Nearly 20% of bacteria studied by a Leiden researcher can break down plastic.

• Supercomputing meets AI to turbocharge protein structure prediction.

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• Solana's leading this week.

• Sony to launch its own crypto exchange in Japan.

• Logan Paul is suing Coffeezilla for defamation over the CryptoZoo project.

• Bitcoin slipped on news of the US transferring $240M worth of seized BTC to Coinbase.

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