Article 59TQQ AI Camera Mistakes Linesman’s Head for Football (Soccer Ball) -- Ruins Game For Fans

AI Camera Mistakes Linesman’s Head for Football (Soccer Ball) -- Ruins Game For Fans

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Mojibake Tengu writes:

Niamh Shackleton of UNILAD reports about a smart machine's tracking badly interfering with important human affairs:

An artificial intelligence (AI) camera mistook a bald lineman's head for a football and therefore meaning fans missed the majority of the game.

While football has welcomed the use of technology in its games in recent years, this was quite the faux pas for Scottish football team Inverness Caledonian Thistle.

The football club only just announced that it would be using AI cameras for its matches earlier this month, which they probably which they hadn't have[sic] done, now...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zoJP2FkpgU

Many viewers complained about the technical glitch which reportedly caused fans to miss the Inverness team's goal being scored.

See also IFL Science!.

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