AI that mistook a bald head for a soccer ball
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Re: AI that mistook a bald head for a soccer ball
#2I worked for a small startup in copenhagen that worked on this exact problem. Our virtual camera solution was great, and detection of the ball worked most of the time, but white long socks would almost always take the camera's attention. Tracking a fast moving object at a distance is a hard problem indeed
Re: AI that mistook a bald head for a soccer ball
#3Earlier discussion here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24955651
Re: AI that mistook a bald head for a soccer ball
#4The article’s title appears to be a reference to: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Mistook_His_Wife...
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#5Is this going to be the "interesting failure of AI" blog topic for the next year?
Re: AI that mistook a bald head for a soccer ball
#6I worked for a small startup in copenhagen that worked on this exact problem. Our virtual camera solution was great, and detection of the ball worked most of the time, but white long socks would almost always take the camera's attention. Tracking a fast moving object at a distance is a hard problem indeed
In this case it seems someone could have asked the referee to wear a hat for the reminder of the game, but no one did.
This isn't just a "bad AI" problem, it's failure to plan for a "Plan B" in case automated ball tracking fails for any reason.
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#7lol i once played with imagenet and sending in Goku headshot (Super Saiyan ) it says it's a pineapple ! I mean I can see why !
Re: AI that mistook a bald head for a soccer ball
#8I worked for a small startup in copenhagen that worked on this exact problem. Our virtual camera solution was great, and detection of the ball worked most of the time, but white long socks would almost always take the camera's attention. Tracking a fast moving object at a distance is a hard problem indeed
In this case it seems someone could have asked the referee to wear a hat for the reminder of the game, but no one did. This isn't just a "bad AI" problem, it's failure to plan for a "Plan B" in case automated ball tracking fails for any reason.
Some soccer teams have bald players. Should they also wear hats?
Re: AI that mistook a bald head for a soccer ball
#9The article’s title appears to be a reference to: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Mistook_His_Wife...
That is a pretty obtuse reference to use without explanation.
It’s also an odd choice because it feels weird to call an AI a “who”. Despite AI replacing some human tasks, as with the camera operator here, the technology is not at all what we would consider a person.
Re: AI that mistook a bald head for a soccer ball
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
In this case it seems someone could have asked the referee to wear a hat for the reminder of the game, but no one did. This isn't just a "bad AI" problem, it's failure to plan for a "Plan B" in case automated ball tracking fails for any reason.
Some soccer teams have bald players. Should they also wear hats?
The AI should be fixed or abandoned in the long term, but it seems a single hat could have made this game much more bearable to watch.
Immediate fix now, better long term solution later.