Welcome to episode 455 of That Triathlon Show, the podcast presented by Scientific Triathlon.com.

My name is Michael Erickson, and today I interview Francois Maudav, who works as Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Digital health at Wake Forest University in North Carolina.

He's also a triathlete with over 30 years experience in the sport,

and he's done some really cool events and races that he describes a little bit in the early part of the interview.

In today's interview, we cover a lot of key concepts of AI,

and this can be especially useful for those who are

not super clued into exactly all of the terminology and so on but these are really important

concepts to understand both in and out of triathlon and then we go into and this is the part that

everybody that typically listens to this podcast I'm sure will be very interested in

how AI could and possibly will be applied in a triathlon context in a not too distant future.

Just a quick note before that, if you missed last week's episode to go back and listen to it,

I interviewed Anna Kisenhofer who is the Olympic champion from Tokyo 2021 in the road race.

And this has been a very popular episode so far and for good reason, as Anna is very transparent

about her training. And she's very clearly somebody who thinks and reflects deeply and

intelligently about it. So it was fantastic to hear these insights from her if you haven't

listened to that interview yet be sure to go back and give it a listen after you finish this

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