The arguments would then shift to the settings for the AI refs. Coaches

Mar 29, 2025
11:09:28am

tevye All-American

Would want the settings to be favorable to their teams style of play and complain if they weren’t. There wont be consensus on how to interpret the rules.

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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

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