Olympics: AI to help guide foreign visitors on Paris metro

Name: Olympics: AI to help guide foreign visitors on Paris metro
Uploaded: 2024-01-31T15:44:35+00:00
Duration: 1 min 40 s
Description: As Paris gets set to welcome visitors from all over the world for this summer’s Olympics, the city is turning to artificial intelligence to help them navigate the French capital. More than 3,000 staff on Paris’s public transport system (RATP) have been provided with AI-powered handheld devices that can translate between French and 16 different languages, including Mandarin, Arabic and Korean.

Issued on: 31/01/2024 - 18:22

A Paris metro worker demonstrates the Tradivia translation device. © Reuters

Video by: Sam BALL

As Paris gets set to welcome visitors from all over the world for this summer’s Olympics, the city is turning to artificial intelligence to help them navigate the French capital. More than 3,000 staff on Paris’s public transport system (RATP) have been provided with AI-powered handheld devices that can translate between French and 16 different languages, including Mandarin, Arabic and Korean.