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Rage against the machines: ignore the fury at Wimbledon, AI in sport works | Sean Ingle

We are all suckers for a good story. And there was certainly a cracking two‑parter at Wimbledon this year. First came the news that 300 line judges had been replaced by artificial intelligence robots. Then, a few days later, it turned out there were some embarrassing gremlins in the machine. Not since Roger Federer hung up his Wilson racket has there been a sweeter spot hit during the Wimbledon fortnight. First the new electronic line-judging system failed to spot that Sonay Kartal had whacked a ball long during he

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Rage against the machines: ignore the fury at Wimbledon, AI in sport works | Sean Ingle
The quick read

We are all suckers for a good story. And there was certainly a cracking two‑parter at Wimbledon this year.

First came the news that 300 line judges had been replaced by artificial intelligence robots. Long ago, researchers estimated that line judges get around 8% of close calls wrong.

Main points
  • We are all suckers for a good story.
  • And there was certainly a cracking two‑parter at Wimbledon this year.
  • First came the news that 300 line judges had been replaced by artificial intelligence robots.
Gain

Rage against the machines: ignore the fury at Wimbledon, AI in sport works | Sean Ingle: Another study in Norway found that successful teams were more likely to be given favourable penalty decisions.

Problem

Rage against the machines: ignore the fury at Wimbledon, AI in sport works | Sean Ingle: First the new electronic line-judging system failed to spot that Sonay Kartal had whacked a ball long during her match against Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, which led to the Russian losing a game she otherwise would have won.

The rundown

First came the news that 300 line judges had been replaced by artificial intelligence robots. Then, a few days later, it turned out there were some embarrassing gremlins in the machine.

What this doesn’t fix

Machine-ingested summary: the claims above reflect a single primary source and have not been weighed against contradicting evidence by a Truvace editor yet.

Sources

The debate