AI & robotics briefing: How AI referees are shaking up football
Briefly

Video assistant referees (VAR), a semi-automated AI system, will assist human referees at UEFA Euro, tracking player movements and ball location in real-time. Despite benefits like detecting offside, criticism exists for inconsistencies in its application.
Elephants may use names to address specific individuals, revealed by a machine-learning model analyzing elephant rumbles. The success rate in identifying addressed elephants was 30%, implying personalized calls.
Before 2017, the term 'bot' wasn't derogatory, as shown by a Twitter analysis of 22 million posts. The transformation into an insult is a recent phenomenon.
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