Ask HN: What would be innovative in sports apps?

#1

Post by phprecovery » Sun, Apr 30, 2023, 11:56 AM UTC

All sports apps are pretty much the same (and look the same) with scores, stats, standings, news, betting, etc.

Is there anything new or different you’d like to see there would make a fan’s experience better or more fun?

Is there any application for new technologies like AI?

Re: Ask HN: What would be innovative in sports apps?

#2

Post by PaulHoule » Sun, Apr 30, 2023, 12:28 PM UTC

Sports chat is an interesting case for LLMs because people will want to talk about who won the game last weekend but the foundation model takes so long too train you can’t keep it fresh enough to answer those questions out of the foundation model so you somehow have to combine the LLM with a database of recent developments.

Re: Ask HN: What would be innovative in sports apps?

#3

Post by brudgers » Sun, Apr 30, 2023, 3:06 PM UTC

PaulHoule wrote: post #2

Sports chat is an interesting case for LLMs because people will want to talk about who won the game last weekend but the foundation model takes so long too train you can’t keep it fresh enough to answer those questions out of the foundation model so you somehow have to combine the LLM with a database of recent developments.

Basically, an LLM for Madlibs?

   _____ should get rid of _____.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_Libs

Or maybe a sports ELIZA?

  I get the sense you are frustrated by the recent loss.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA

Re: Ask HN: What would be innovative in sports apps?

#4

Post by PaulHoule » Sun, Apr 30, 2023, 3:37 PM UTC

brudgers wrote: post #3

PaulHoule wrote: post #2

Sports chat is an interesting case for LLMs because people will want to talk about who won the game last weekend but the foundation model takes so long too train you can’t keep it fresh enough to answer those questions out of the foundation model so you somehow have to combine the LLM with a database of recent developments.

Basically, an LLM for Madlibs? _____ should get rid of _____. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_Libs Or maybe a sports ELIZA? I get the sense you are frustrated by the recent loss. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA

Bing chat seems to do a search lookup and then have the LLM riff on that, which is what i’d do if i had to talk about something i didn’t know anything about.