2023-06-21 14:13:59
On the occasion of the Wimbledon tennis tournament, this month of July, IBM will use its AI Watson to automatically generate comments for videos summarizing the highlights of the matches. Big Blue will also introduce a new statistics system that calculates a player’s probability of winning the tournament each round.
Partner of the Wimbledon tennis tournament, IBM has unveiled two innovations that we can discover during the 2023 edition, this month of July. First, all highlight videos released on the official website and app will include commentary generated by Big Blue’s generative artificial intelligence technology, dubbed IBM watsonx.
“The tool was designed to give fans a more in-depth experience when rewatching key match moments,” the provider explains. The Watson AI was trained to familiarize itself with tennis vocabulary, as well as to generate a narration with a varied sentence structure and vocabulary “in order to make the clips informative and attractive”, underlines the press release. IBM.
In addition, another novelty introduced by IBM this year is the analysis of the tournament table following the draw. At each round, this tool calculates a player’s probability of winning the tournament, taking into account things like matches with their potential future opponents and their position in the table relative to their rivals. “This new information will help tennis fans uncover potential anomalies and surprises in the singles chart that would not be apparent if only player rankings were considered, which will generate more debate and discussion. engagement within the hobbyist community,” explains IBM.
This isn’t the first time IBM has experimented with AI at Wimbledon. Five years ago, the firm tapped into Watson to analyze players’ emotions to speed up the production of match-highlight videos. Regarding the same grand slam tournament, we also remember that Stanford researchers created an algorithm, three years ago, capable of manipulating real videos and seeing, for example, Roger Federer win the 2019 final (in reality lost once morest Djokovic).
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