In his latest book, “Nexus: a brief history of information networks, from stone age to artificial intelligence,” Israeli historian and philosopher Yuval Harari deals with the information revolution we are living and how technology can be used to Good and evil.
Harari begins the book by saying how the human being over thousands of years has accumulated extreme power with so many discoveries, inventions and achievements. However, as power does not mean wisdom, he says that the same human being who has achieved so much has placed himself in an existential crisis, being on the brink of ecological collapse caused by misuse of his own power and creating technologies such as artificial intelligence, which It has the ability to escape our control and enslave us or annihilate us. “If the human being is so smart, why is it so self -destructive?” The author asks.
Artificial intelligence is already present in our daily lives often without us or realizing it. On the positive side, it helps companies, for example, automate and accelerate processes and has the potential to make our lives easier in many ways. At the same time, there have also been many more lazy people, as the possibility of delegating the human function of writing texts and emails, doing research, solving problems. Technology, in general, has been part of professional sport for years. The arrival of AI would be just a matter of time.
This week I read a report published by Sheet About the X Winter Games, held this month in the United States, would use an experimental basis of an artificial intelligence judge. Humans would still decide the official scores and medals, but the idea is that in the future the tool helps the referees in sports where there is a trial – and often notes generate controversy – such as surfing, gymnastics or ornamental jumps. The report even mentions that an AI tool has already been used by judges in world championships of artistic gymnastics.
The X Games CEO believes that artificial intelligence will not assume the role of humans in arbitration, but to bring objectivity to subjective sports. It will be? I agree with your speech that you can help where “the eye cannot follow what the athlete is doing”.
The COI (International Olympic Committee) has launched a study program on the subject and believes that artificial intelligence can be a athlete support tool, helping to identify new talents and develop training systems and sports equipment. In arbitration, he believes, he can make the competition fairer. But the president of the Coi said that it is necessary to have a holistic approach with the theme, made responsibly.
It will not be simple, not practical, and I really hope that sports managers will see this as a long and complex discussion. Artificial intelligence offers opportunities, but also risks.
In the case of sport, the focus always has to be the athlete. Performance will always come from a human, with body, muscles, brain and heart. And the emotion that the sport and a meat and bone competitor provide no machine can imitate.
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