SailGP 2025 / L'IA peut-elle piloter un F50. The Vault
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00:00SailGP Insights takes a data lab to every Sail Grand Prix.
00:05This lab conceals the best kept secrets of SailGP's fleet.
00:10This room receives data from 1,300 sensors placed on board the F-50s.
00:18Teams can see each other's data,
00:21but only those who know what to look for will find the key to success.
00:26The best sailors in the world know this room as the Grand Prix Vault.
00:33Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the SailGP Season 3 Grand Final Weekend in San Francisco.
00:41Teams Australia and New Zealand have already secured their spots in the Grand Final,
00:46but the third spot is still up for grabs.
00:50It's down to Emirates GBR and Team France.
00:53One of them will qualify.
00:56This is GBR versus France.
00:58Who will come out on top?
01:00Who will make it to the Grand Final?
01:02And who's going to compete for over a million dollars in prize money?
01:08We have five fleet races to decide.
01:10Three today and two tomorrow.
01:12The team that accumulates the most points will claim that precious third spot in the Grand Final.
01:18Racing's underway and it looks like Team Emirates GBR are really going for it.
01:27Flight controller Luke Parco Parkinson really showing the fleet how it's done.
01:33GBR is doing just an amazing job.
01:36They're foiling higher than everyone else, super stable.
01:40The SailGP, it happens thick and fast.
01:45You get out there and there's a very limited amount of races that we really have to perform.
01:50My job is to fly the boat and to fly well and to fly high.
01:55The higher you fly, the faster you go, but it makes it a little bit on edge and a bit sketchy,
01:59but loose is, loose is fast, loose is fun.
02:07In San Fran Parkour did the masterclass,
02:10playing the boat super high and really stable.
02:13On the first day of sailing here at the Mubadla SailGP Season 3 Grand Final San Francisco,
02:19race number two goes the way of the Brits.
02:22All the other teams are capable of sailing high, but they're not able to keep it on as long as GBR.
02:33Look at this, France flying the hole and I don't know if that's intentional.
02:36Look at that, turns the boat away from the wind, they fall off the poles.
02:39That's so unfortunate for the French.
02:44The French are struggling, let's be honest.
02:46Questions are raised on why can't I do it if they are able to do it?
02:52The French run to the data container, like the vault of information.
02:56And they say, what's going on here? You know, how are they doing that?
03:00I think a lot of teams come up to us, all the data analysts and with these questions,
03:06like how are they able to do it?
03:08There's so much going on on the boat and those are things that are sometimes a little invisible from the outside.
03:14There's so many different variables here, like they're sailing higher,
03:18but they're also sailing with the wing in a different position, with the boat keel in a different position,
03:23the rudders with a different break.
03:26The data scientists at the vault are used to getting asked lots of questions,
03:30but sometimes the questions that they're asked, even they don't know the answer to,
03:35and this was one of those questions.
03:37It's hard to see which one is the one that is creating this stable flight mode.
03:44So that's why we need the AI model here to tell us the most important factor to concentrate on.
03:50There's no one thing that's really obvious. So as you do, they write an algorithm, which is mad, to be able to figure it out.
03:59They're using AI programming to basically get the computer to figure out how to sail an F-50 the best,
04:06and then compare it to how the sailors are using the F-50.
04:10Do you think at the end of this, the AI will be able to fly the boat instead of parker?
04:16Control AI that fly the boat?
04:19Park AI.
04:22I wasn't aware that the other teams were studying to such an extent with the Oracle system.
04:28I knew a lot of teams were sort of looking at it.
04:31You know, over the few seasons of SailGP, I've sort of been aware that the other teams,
04:35you know, they're raising their bar and they're trying to close the gap.
04:38So to the frustration of the French team, the AI algorithm couldn't produce the answers in time for day two.
04:50But this didn't stop Hugo diving into the data and trying to find out how Parko could fly that boat so high.
04:57And the answer is really fascinating.
05:01This AI machine spits out that the ability of their flight controller
05:07was just modulating the perfect amount over those huge San Francisco waves.
05:14On the flight controller, you're having to preempt what is coming at you and how the boat is going to respond.
05:20They have to predict the future. They have to feel the turbulence on the foil before it catches.
05:25They've got to understand how the forces are changing and really act on intuition.
05:30To be flying that high, it just means you have more skill and you're more consistent.
05:36Parko's hands are moving so fast, they're probably moving before he even knows what's coming at him.
05:42That's what makes him one of the best flight controllers here at South GP.
05:51And it's Emirates GBR that bagged the points ahead of France, which sees them reach the grand final.
05:57A masterclass from Ben Ainsley and his crew.
06:02Luke Parkinson's performance was so good that the Vault needed AI to decode his magic.
06:12The breakthrough now is the fact that we're using more and more AI. I think it's really, really cool.
06:16It helps us to understand how the boats behave.
06:23Who knows what the future holds?
06:24AI is evolving.
06:26I think the Vault is just going to get better and better and the things that they're going to discover,
06:31the things they're going to find, the lessons that they can teach.
06:35I think it's going to transform sailing and the way that we learn and it's going to be incredible to watch.
06:40I guess with the F50, there is some tricks and some little secrets that I'm definitely not going to, you know, give away.
06:52And I hold them pretty close because it's a large part of why I, you know, pride myself on what I do.
06:59And I look forward to other teams, you know, trying to challenge me, to push me further because I think I can still go further.
07:05I think I can still go further.