Can AI technology tackle concussions and injuries in American football? 🇺🇸🏈

⁠The NFL has developed an artificial intelligence tool that uses TV imagery and sensors embedded in helmets, mouth guards and shoulder pads to try to reduce injuries among American football players. Using machine learning and computer vision technology, it pinpoints impacts and injuries and offers insight into making players safer. “Having the computers understand how many times a player hits his helmet during the course of a game,” says NFL executive vice president Jeff Miller, “[helps] find ways to reduce the amount of helmet contact.” This has led to several rule changes in the sport, aimed at reducing risk.⁠ Any steps taken to reduce injuries can only be a good thing. But, while "the NFL is doing some things better," says Jesse Mez, a neurologist at Boston University, "football is inherently about hitting and I don't think we will ever be able to entirely mitigate risk".⁠ – Learn more ➤ https://youtu.be/zHU_y1mVnQU?si=1Ie0YCr5tSeAzAo9 Subscribe ➤ https://bit.ly/NSYTSUBS Get more from New Scientist: Official website: https://bit.ly/NSYTHP Facebook: https://bit.ly/NSYTFB Twitter: https://bit.ly/NSYTTW Instagram: https://bit.ly/NSYTINSTA LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/NSYTLIN About New Scientist: New Scientist was founded in 1956 for “all those interested in scientific discovery and its social consequences”. Today our website, videos, newsletters, app, podcast and print magazine cover the world’s most important, exciting and entertaining science news as well as asking the big-picture questions about life, the universe, and what it means to be human. New Scientist https://www.newscientist.com/