In a few years’ time, football coaches may be using an AI assistant | Jason Stockwood


Artificial intelligence could enhance insights in the game and has been part of the success at Brighton and Brentford

As an entrepreneur and tech enthusiast, I have witnessed several overhyped technologies and businesses. These stretch from the first wave of the internet in the 1990s with Webvan and Pets.com, which both had multibillion-dollar valuations, to the recent Theranos scandal, where a $10bn blood testing business turned out to be a sham.

Irrational exuberance has been the precursor to the downfall of many ventures. I have been far from immune; you only have to see the photo of me, proudly wearing my Google Glasses, sitting next to the ponytailed inventor Astro Teller in 2013 as evidence. However, I believe that OpenAI’s ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence tool, could be a gamechanger. Bill Gates recently declared it the most significant technological advance since the graphical user interface.

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