As the world get going to lento grant restraint of everything to artificial intelligence , there ’s bound to be some grow pains . When a Scottish association football team upgrade their sports stadium with live - pour games courtesy of a ball - tracking , AI - powered camera , theyfailed to realize that , to a electronic computer , a referee with a shave and/or bald head would benearly indistinguishablefrom a association football ball .
As part of efforts to increase societal distancing and protect its fans , a duo of workweek ago the Scottish Inverness Caledonian Thistle FC association football clubannouncedthat it would be live - streaming all menage game at its Caledonian Stadium to season just the ticket holders or those wishing to follow a specific game through a pay - per - view service . As part of the initiative , the club also revealed that it would be replacing human television camera wheeler dealer with a new automatic photographic camera system from a caller forebode Pixellot that leverages artificial intelligence to track the Lucille Ball on the force field and automatically keep the important activeness focus on on blind .
At least , that was the plan .
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According to thePixellot website , to date over 500,000 sporting case have been broadcast using its AI - power camera technology , but for whatever reason , a late match between Inverness Caledonian Thistle and Ayr United proved too much of a challenge for the system to by rights do its job . It was n’t the weather that complicated things , but rather , one of the linesman referees was disport a bald header that was on the face of it just burnished enough , and just round enough , to be slip for a soccer ball .
YouTuberChuckiehandsedited together a high spot reel of the Pixellot system struggling to keep its focus on the real Lucille Ball throughout the plot . It mostly did its job as it should , but every so often , when the egg was obscured by players or shadow , the camera would quickly reset and pan down to the electrician at the bottom of the blind momently before refocusing and returning to the ball again .
As frustrating as it must have been for paying fans of the team trying to view the action at habitation , it ’s also an amusing case of why swear only on artificial intelligence activity , peculiarly in its babyhood , is n’t the unspoilt advance . But it ’s a monitory taradiddle , too : If a figurer has this much trouble tell apart a human head from a soccer ball , do we really want self-directed car making judgement calls on our road ?
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