New Delhi, Jan. 26 -- We saw several innovative uses of AI in the past week, and a bad slip-up in news sharing. A quick round-up:

Organisers of the ongoing Maha Kumbh in Prayagraj have a secret weapon against deadly stampedes that have often plagued the mega festival-Artificial Intelligence, which is helping the authorities avoid reaching critical mass in sensitive places, AFP reports. Police say they have installed around 300 cameras at the festival site, including a fleet of drone cameras. The footage is fed into an AI algorithm that gives the authorities an overall estimate of a crowd in every direction in a wide range, cross-checked against data from railways and buses. The system sounds the alarm if sections of the crowd get so conc...