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Sport analytics leverage AI and ML to improve the game

CIO

Nearly 10 years ago, Bill James, a pioneer in sports analytics methodology, said if there’s one thing he wished more people understood about sabermetrics, pertaining to baseball, it’s that the data is not the point. Computer vision, AI, and machine learning (ML) all now play a role. Souza’s advice: Cultivate curiosity.

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Enhancing customer care through deep machine learning at Travelers

CIO

And we recognized as a company that we needed to start thinking about how we leverage advancements in technology and tremendous amounts of data across our ecosystem, and tie it with machine learning technology and other things advancing the field of analytics. This is kind of a team sport for us, so itâ??s

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Hiro Capital puts $2.3M into team sports tracking platform PlayerData — as does Sir Terry Leahy

TechCrunch

Hiro Capital has gradually been making a name for itself as an investor in the area know as “Digital Sports” or DSports for short. based PlayerData uses wearable technology and software tracking to give grass-roots and professional sports teams feedback on their training. It’s now led a $2.3 Edinburgh, U.K.-based

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A Sports Analogy for Understanding Different Ways to Use AI

Harvard Business Review

The authors have come to think about this issue as points on a spectrum and have created a sports analogy to help think about it: AI tools can range from steroids, to sneakers, to a coach, each representing a different relationship between human users and the technology.

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The Newest FIFA World Cup Referee: Human-in-the-Loop Machine Learning

Cloudera

The data innovation that I was most excited to learn about though is the implementation of a human-in-the-loop (HITL) machine learning (ML) solution to assist referees in more accurately calling offsides. What is human-in-the-loop machine learning? A world-class machine learning solution.

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Computer vision transforms tennis coaching at Billie Jean King Cup

CIO

With centuries of tradition behind it, tennis as a sport has been highly resistant to change. It’s fair to say that tennis has lived up to its roots as a traditional sport,” says Mat Pemble, executive director of IT for the International Tennis Federation (ITF), the sport’s governing body.

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A CIO primer on addressing perceived AI risks

CIO

Others will use AI to automate tasks currently performed by the humans they employ. Other than those of our fellow humans who hunt for sport it’s rare for species to harm members of other species just for the heck of it. Each baker’s performance falls on a bell curve. They can, and some will. Or, more likely, they’ll do both.