Artificial intelligence could enhance insights in the game and has been part of the success at Brighton and BrentfordAs 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...
After a machine beat poker players hands down, athletes can take comfort from the fact that computer technology could help them significantly improve their performanceAnd still the machines rise. First chess was conquered. Then Go. Now, as revealed in the journal Science last week, artificial intelligence has cracked the most popular form of poker, six-player No-Limit Texas Hold’Em, by self-playing thousands of hands against itself to learn which strategies worked – and then applying them in real games against professionals.The results were startling. After playing 10,000 hands of poker against more than a dozen top pros across 12 days, the Pluribus – a program designed by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and Facebook AI – would have made about $1,000...
Japanese IT giant Fujitsu is developing a 3D sensory system that will make scoring easier. But will computers ever fully replace human judges?A light blinks on the black box alerting the gymnast to begin her routine. She launches off the vault, lands and turns to salute the robotic judge. Her score is already flashing on the big screen to the Olympics crowd and to millions of viewers at home, who have followed the live scoring as the move is dissected in real time.This is not a scene from Blade Runner 2049, but a possible vision of gymnastics future as it races to include artificial intelligence in its judging system. Related: USA's Morgan Hurd wins surprise gold in all-around final at...