How Is Deep Learning Changing The World Of Sports?


Answer by Arjun Dutt, Director of Inception: Deep Learning & AI Startups at NVIDIA, on Quora: ...

Few people expect teams of humans to be taking on squads of AI robots on the courts or in the field anytime soon, if ever. Yet deep learning, a subset of AI focused on pattern recognition and reinforcement learning, is already in use by researchers and technology startups across a variety of sports. ...

New York University Professor Claudio Silva and MLB Advanced Media consultant Carlos Dietrich developed a metrics engine that tracks each movement of every player and the ball throughout a game.

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