Home Page
Message Board
News
Search
Events
Sports
Schedule
Future Schedules
Opponent Boards
Bracket Challenges
Player Interviews
Player Q&As
Social Boards
Football
Basketball
Fans
Fun Features
Post of the Day
Best of...
Visualizations
Store
My Account
Login
Sign Up
Report problem with this ad
Start a related thread
Start a related poll
Reply via Boardmail
Mar 29, 2025
11:25
:03
am
CSoul
Hardcore Democrat
Tech has barely been able to call balls out in tennis. Not in your lifetime.
Start a related thread
Start a related poll
Reply via Boardmail
Report problem with this ad
CSoul
Previous username
tsm26
Bio page
CSoul
Joined
Nov 20, 2005
Last login
Apr 10, 2025
Total posts
75,318 (16,346 FO)
Report problem with this ad
Messages
Author
Time
Fully AI refs. Consistent. Absolutely fair always. Thoughts?
happyhiker
Mar 29, 11:00am
Technology is not even close to being there yet.
cougarfann888
Mar 29, 11:01am
Not for basketball or football by a long shot
mudpupper
Mar 29, 11:08am
Football would be easier than basketball for sure
ABCoug
Mar 29, 12:18pm
Wrong
ABCoug
Mar 29, 12:17pm
As person fairly involved with AI development in a few different sectors
mudpupper
Mar 29, 12:53pm
What tech is missing?
ABCoug
Mar 29, 2:19pm
RE: Fully AI refs. Consistent. Absolutely fair always. Thoughts?
DieHarder
Mar 29, 11:04am
If I’m a billionaire techy, I’d put so much money towards this.
Kdubb
Mar 29, 11:07am
I agree. But the algorithms aren’t there yet. We’re trending in that direction,
Warner
Mar 29, 11:11am
The arguments would then shift to the settings for the AI refs. Coaches
tevye
Mar 29, 11:09am
Superstars would HATE the AI ref system. No more porcelain doll treatment.
Kajdin
Mar 29, 11:37am
Disagree. Coaches would have to adjust to the same standard. Can't complain
happyhiker
Mar 29, 11:55am
When you look at payouts of playoffs and tournaments teams, conferences, owners
Tio
Mar 29, 11:59am
I've thought about this alot.....
Tio
Mar 29, 11:21am
You think all that equipment and the crew to support and debug it would be cheaper than just human refs?
CSoul
Mar 29, 11:26am
As kdubb said above; all it would take is one billionaire to fund and sell.
Tio
Mar 29, 11:54am
Tech has barely been able to call balls out in tennis. Not in your lifetime.
CSoul
Mar 29, 11:25am
Trouble with AI is it inherits biases of training data. Basically it will still
seacougar
Mar 29, 11:31am
Cameras are dirt cheap for what would be needed for this purpose
ABCoug
Mar 29, 12:15pm
We can't even get cameras for end zone reviews. Positioning and angles in sports is everything with refs.
CSoul
Mar 29, 12:28pm
Yes, that’s the easy part. Correct training data is the challenge.
seacougar
Mar 29, 1:50pm
It will still make bad calls but you’ll have no one to yell at
maxpowers
Mar 29, 11:43am
Can you imagine all the flop calls upfront? It would be a thing of beauty!!!!
Tio
Mar 29, 11:56am
As funny as people think this is, it’s probably the future
ABCoug
Mar 29, 12:14pm
It is the future but we aren't close enough today
mudpupper
Mar 29, 12:51pm
Report problem with this ad
Posting on CougarBoard
In order to post, you will need to either
sign up
or
log in
.
Report problem with this ad
