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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
#12Could be worse. An eagle once mistook Aeschylus's bald head for a rock and dropped a tortoise on it (expecting the rock to smash the tortoise shell), killing Aeschylus. https://www.goldencharter.co.uk/news-and-info/2017/six-stran....
Re: AI that mistook a bald head for a soccer ball
#13Re: AI that mistook a bald head for a soccer ball
#14I 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.
Well, it sounds like there aren’t a lot of support people for lower tier soccer... no camera operators, and no one even watching the camera feed.
Re: AI that mistook a bald head for a soccer ball
#15Today my iPhone suggested that I look at an automated album of home cooked food from my photos.
It was working pretty well as I scrolled through and then it came up with some poop on the ground that for some reason I had taken a photo of. Kind of disconcerting.
Re: AI that mistook a bald head for a soccer ball
#16Earlier 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?
Perhaps they can cut personal sponsorship deals, as they'll be getting so much more airtime in future
/jk
Re: AI that mistook a bald head for a soccer ball
#17Either train more with bald players, or do better at choosing the 'thing that is being converged upon'. Humans would be able to follow a game regardless of the shape or color of the ball's appearance.
Re: AI that mistook a bald head for a soccer ball
#18Either train more with bald players, or do better at choosing the 'thing that is being converged upon'. Humans would be able to follow a game regardless of the shape or color of the ball's appearance.
I imagine for soccer the task of determining where the ball is based on player locations would be a lot harder than you think.
Re: AI that mistook a bald head for a soccer ball
#19Today my iPhone suggested that I look at an automated album of home cooked food from my photos. It was working pretty well as I scrolled through and then it came up with some poop on the ground that for some reason I had taken a photo of. Kind of disconcerting.
Your iPhone is just suggesting you to take some cooking classes, no big deal. It's its way of helping.
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#20The 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.
Well, it's a very, very famous book.