The Euro 2024 international football tournament gets underway today, and we're delighted to report that AI has finally been turned into something useful in the form of a virtual pundit for sports fans.
The octopus is a sly nod to Paul the Octopus, who predicted the results of Germany's Euro 2008 matches and the 2010 FIFA World Cup. Although a cynic might note that similar success could be had with the toss of a coin, the Cephalopod's unnervingly accurate predictions lacked the detail afforded by squirting data into an LLM.
It's a neat demo of Luzmo's cloud-first data analytics platform, which pulls data from various sources to provide customer insights. As is often the case, AI pixie dust has been sprinkled over the product. According to CEO Karel Callens, the wonder tech has been used for"opening up an audience that previously didn't have access ... because of not knowing what the data is behind it, but still knowing their business.
"We're a building block that you can embed in just a couple of days. You don't have to host or maintain any servers or keep them up to date – that's done for you ... You can connect APIs, not just your databases, we don't need to know who your customers are, we can work with your own security system.