Artificial Intellience (AI) is usually used in consumer electronics, predicting what you’re going to type, helping with translations or making recommendations based on what you liked in the past. But in a pool? Lifeguards are testing the technology at swimming pools across Germany, to help keep swimmers safe and prevent accidents, says Necdet Mantar from a working group on public pools in the south-western state of Baden-Württemberg. The state is experimenting with AI due to staff shortages, though he and others say the technology is not competing with people. “It does not replace a lifeguard,…