There’s also the challenge with crowd bias in favor of local players, and the different volumes you might expect to find between matches involving the biggest name players and young up-and-comers. Regardless of which sport you’re into, artificial intelligence tools will likely transform them in the years to come. That lets us rank every point in every match in order of excitement.” is there to understand this and recognize important moments in the match, based on everything from response to gestures. “It’s the excitement of the players, the excitement of the crowd, the actions happening on the court. “You’re trying to look at what makes a good highlight,” Seddon said, describing the work that goes into creating the A.I. (These tools are also available to Wimbledon players, who can quickly access their performances, made fully searchable, after each game.) AELTC/Ben QueenboroughĪt last year’s Wimbledon, 20 million digital video views were racked up of which IBM’s artificial intelligence - a slightly more primitive model than this year’s version - contributed 14 million. This all takes place in a room deep in the depths of a building called the IBM Wimbledon Tech Bunker. As soon as a match is finished, or sometimes even before, these moments can be slickly edited together by a bot and pushed out of the door to a world watching on millions of computers and mobile devices. Trained on thousands of previous tennis matches at IBM’s disposal, and getting better all the time, it watches each match and singles out the most exciting bits. “When the product you’re needing to present is 18 tennis matches happening at the same time, that’s a huge amount of content.” What makes a good highlight? “How do you break news and deliver content faster than the global media organizations?” Seddon continued. You would need an unimaginably large team of human editors to do it and, even then, it would still be a stretch. That problem? That, in a 13-day competition with hundreds of players and games, spread across 18 grass courts, creating highlights packages and sharing them online in a timely manner would usually be next to impossible. capabilities (IBM is the company behind Watson, the artificial intelligence which once been beat the world’s best human players at the game show Jeopardy) to solve a major problem. During that time it has performed many technical functions, including setting up the competition’s first website back in the days of screechy dial-up modems. IBM has been Wimbledon’s sponsor for the past 30 years. was in full display at Wimbledon, the oldest of the world’s big four tennis tournaments, which concluded last week. is looking at the same thing in terms of data.” That’s ‘excitement’ defined in a way that an A.I. What we’ve created is a system that is incredibly well-versed at understanding tennis from an excitement point of view. “Taking it into the realms of appreciation implies a human component,” Sam Seddon, IBM Sports and Entertainment Sponsorship lead for the U.K., told Digital Trends. technology - and it’s learned to appreciate tennis on a whole new level. Why mention Wallace’s almost decade-and-half old essay on a tech site? Because IBM recently unveiled the latest iteration of its impressive A.I. In order to truly appreciate Federer’s athletic feats, we needed a member of the priesthood - a talented youth player like Wallace had been - who could make it intelligible to us. Ordinary mortals like you and I could comprehend what was happening, but only barely. Wallace (and he was certainly not the first writer to do this) gushed about high-level sporting achievements as though they were more than just superb technique as if they were, somehow, a transcendent portal to godliness. Copyright © 2012, Columbia University Press. The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th ed. At the senior Watson's death, IBM had assets of over $600 million and a world market of 82 countries. ![]() Encouraged by his son, Thomas John Watson, Jr., he invested heavily in research and in the 1950s widened IBM's line to include electronic computers. ![]() (IBM) in 1924 and Watson became its chairman in 1949. The company was renamed International Business Machines Corp. ![]() (1898–1913), he became (1914) president of the foundering Computing-Tabulating-Recording Co., which made scales, time clocks, and tabulators that sorted information using punched cards, all forerunners of the earliest mainframe computers. ![]() After rising from clerk to sales executive in the National Cash Register Co. Watson, Thomas John, 1874–1956, American industrialist and philanthropist, b.
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