Artificial Intelligence In Sports: AI Made Fairer For Wimbledon Courts

Efforts to make artificial intelligence fairer w extend to Wimbledon’s courts. All England Club, which hosts famed British tennis event, is ding techlogy enhancements at this year’s tournament aimed at eliminating bias from computer-generated video highlights. 

club has alrey been using AI to go through hours of foot and automatically pick out best shots from matches played on its 18 courts. AI chooses moments based on criteria including wher a player does a fist pump and how much audience cheers after a point. Fans can n watch assembled videos online and players can use m to review ir performance. 

For this year’s tournament, which runs until July 19, AI has been tweaked to balance out any favouritism shown to a player who gestures more or has a louder fan base. goal is to make sure an equally skilled yet more reserved opponent gets similar exposure. 

“Just because you don’t pump your fist doesn’t mean it’s t a good shot,” said Sam Seddon, a client executive at IBM, club’s techlogy provider. 

Tech bias has come into focus lately amid growing awareness that artificial intelligence systems aren’t neutral tools but reflect society because y’re programmed by humans. Or, more serious examples include facial recognition that misidentifies darker-skinned people and financial algorithms that charge higher interest rates to Lati and black borrowers. Some US lawmakers are calling for tighter scrutiny that includes subjecting big companies to an “algorithmic accountability” test of ir high-risk AI systems. 

Seddon said IBM’s Watson artificial intelligence system scans video foot and scores it on crowd cheering, player gestures and how important each point is, to give matches an “excitement ranking” to find best clips. 

Those scores are w justed to smooth out any bias because orwise “you could potentially have a situation whereby t all of best moments of a match are identified,” Seddon said. 

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