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Sport analytics leverage AI and ML to improve the game

CIO

In the years since author Michael Lewis popularized sabermetrics in his 2003 book, Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game , sports analytics has evolved considerably beyond baseball. Computer vision, AI, and machine learning (ML) all now play a role. During each week of games, the platform captures and processes 6.8

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Explosion snags $6M on $120M valuation to expand machine learning platform

TechCrunch

Explosion , a company that has combined an open source machine learning library with a set of commercial developer tools, announced a $6 million Series A today on a $120 million valuation. “Fundamentally, Explosion is a software company and we build developer tools for AI and machine learning and natural language processing. .

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Gwoop raises $1.8M for its esports training platform as it starts working with high school gaming leagues

TechCrunch

Earlier this year I wrote about Gwoop , a team out of Minnesota building a collection of browser-based games meant to help you get better at video games overall. Over the last few months the company has been building out “Gwoop Teams,” which, as the name implies, is built for groups training together.

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Difference between Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

The Crazy Programmer

We are talking about machine learning and artificial intelligence. Machine which are just able to react to some actions. E.g. Google’s AlphaGo which can play board games. On the other hand Machine Learning is the ability of machines to learn on their own without being explicitly programmed.

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Scale AI gets into the synthetic data game

TechCrunch

Now, it is using that foundation to get into the synthetic data game, one of the hotter and emerging categories in AI. They announced Wednesday an early access program to Scale Synthetic , a product that machine learning engineers can use to enhance their existing real-world data sets, according to the company.

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How AI is helping the NFL improve player safety

CIO

Digital Athlete is a platform that leverages AI and machine learning (ML) to predict from plays and body positions which players are at the highest risk of injury. During each week of games, Digital Athlete captures and processes 6.8 I think that indicates how rules and how you play the game is changing.”

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VRAI wants to tackle the energy crisis by bringing VR simulation training to offshore wind sector

TechCrunch

Virtual Reality (VR) has struggled to transition too far beyond gaming circles and specific industry use-cases such as medical training , but with the burgeoning metaverse movement championed by tech heavyweights such as Meta , there has been a renewed hope (and hype) around the promise that virtual worlds bring.

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