As you certainly know I am a fan of P.J. Vazel and I am following his twitter (X) stream. Thus I stumbled upon a post where it was question of a 6.5 m

Rethinking Athletics: The 6.51 m pole vault and another AI stupidity

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2024-11-10 19:00:02

As you certainly know I am a fan of P.J. Vazel and I am following his twitter (X) stream. Thus I stumbled upon a post where it was question of a 6.5 m jump and artificial intelligence(!). I was intrigued and I followed the link to an (excellent) article by J. Cassirame and collaborators. In the introduction of the article one reads that there have been speculations on the limit of the men's pole vault performances based on AI analyses. A direct reference to the latest one was given, but it linked to an article of Le Monde, unfortunately behind a paywall. But the author of these speculations was explicitly named, Ather Gattami, apparently an expert in AI, and thus I could track down the original publications.

I found several articles in swedish (but Google can provide quite adequate translations) with one entitled "AI track – Mondo's dream height is 6.51". Duplantis himself has an ambitious career plan and has declared that:

"Jumping 6 meters and 30 centimetres is my next big goal. But why stop there when I can strive for even more? I believe in setting high goals and working hard to achieve them".