IBM Puts On Its Big-Boy Pants, Fumbles with AI-generated Highlights at US Open Tennis Championships

Your Boring Tennis Match, Now Brought to You by Boring, Number-Crunching Robots

IBM, in a desperate bid for relevance, tries to revolutionize the way we watch tennis or more likely, the way we yawn at it. The tech has-been plans to use generative AI during the US Open Tennis Championships, endeavoring their dull, stat-driven highlights across all matches. Incredible. Now we can ignore the subtleties of human athletic prowess and instead focus on quite possibly the most mind-numbing approach to sports viewing.

Futile Utilization of Emerging Technology Or Just Plain Tech Torture?

If Zoom meetings aren’t upping your caffeine intake already, surely IBM’s robotic innovation will do it for you. The grim underlying implication here is the horrific prospect of generative AI replacing real, human commentary. Imagine having every mind-blowing, blood-pumping moment of a sports game disrupted by the monotone drone of a number-crunching robot. This isn’t some avant-garde attempt at broadcasting; it’s downgrading the art of sports to a cold, unemotional barrage of stats.

Big Blue Vomits AI Nonsense Here, There and Everywhere

An AI bot spewing out stats instead of human expressions during your favorite tennis matches? Surely, this must be some pitiful joke or Orwellian nightmare. But no, it’s IBM’s idea of a ‘game-changing’ innovation. In the grand scheme of things, this desperate stunt by IBM seems like a sad attempt to remain relevant in a technology landscape that’s long left them in the dust. Congratulations, IBM. You’ve taken a beloved sport and turned it into a mind-numbing lesson in statistics. The next logical step would be to replace the athletes with robots; it would perfectly match the utter sterility of your ‘innovation’.

Original article:https://venturebeat.com/ai/ibm-serves-up-ai-generated-tennis-commentary-and-draw-analysis-at-the-us-open/