Level Playing Field? How Big Data Is Revolutionizing Sports Analysis
AI promises a revolution in the sporting world. From detecting injury and fatigue to real-time performance analysis, AI-powered systems are crunching huge volumes of data to help humans make better decisions. But will these advances benefit only the elite of sport? Anthony Cioppa, assistant professor in Computer Vision and Data Analysis at the University of Liège, has collaborated on research with FIFA and UEFA. We asked him how exactly humans train AI for sport, why he hopes AI analysis will be an equalizing force and where human analysis can still beat the machines.
