AI cameras tested in Cannes ahead of Olympics

A large canvas of the official 77th Cannes Film Festival poster, in Cannes, France, May 12, 2024. Local authorities say they are using 17 experimental cameras equipped with AI technology that are supposed to ‘identify events or behaviours deemed suspicious’ and help detect abandoned packages, weapons and people in distress. — Reuters

CANNES: State-of-the-art security using artificial intelligence is being deployed at the Cannes Film Festival in a test for potential applications at the Paris Olympics two months later.

Some 40,000 attendees – and some of the world's biggest movie stars – fly into the Cote d'Azur for the festival from Tuesday to May 25.