{"id":842,"date":"2020-11-02T07:08:07","date_gmt":"2020-11-02T07:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/?p=1326487"},"modified":"2020-11-02T07:08:07","modified_gmt":"2020-11-02T07:08:07","slug":"ai-mistakes-referees-bald-head-for-football-hilarity-ensued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/?p=842","title":{"rendered":"AI mistakes referee\u2019s bald head for football \u2014 hilarity ensued"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Top football leagues and teams around the world have TV crews and streaming services at their disposal to broadcast matches to fans across the globe. However, because of the coronavirus pandemic, smaller football teams are relying on AI-powered cameras to cast live matches through YouTube.<\/p>\n

While it\u2019s a fantastic and pocket-friendly idea<\/a> for smaller clubs to show their games, sometimes AI can frustrate everyone. Scottish team Inverness Caledonian Thistle Football Club had deployed such a camera to live-stream their match against Ayr United.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The camera was supposed to track the ball automatically using AI and show footage on YouTube. However, the camera\u2019s AI thought a bald linesman\u2019s head was the ball, and repeatedly kept showing him instead of the ball in play. Fans were not happy about this, and they had to even miss the team\u2019s lone goal because of the glitch.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Yeah missed our goal my team Ayr Utd kept thinking the Lino bald head was the ball<\/p>\n

\u2014 Scott K.\u26bd\ufe0f\ud83c\udfa4\ud83c\udfa7 (@skayr100) October 26, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

You can see the highlights from the AI camera to see how the focus kept shifting from the game to the referee. If this happened in any of the higher up leagues, officials would\u2019ve had a field day answering fans and media.<\/p>\n