AI that spots basketball players’ weaknesses could help underdogs win

Bradley Beal of the Washington Wizards drives to the basket

Analytics is widely used in basketball to inform team tactics G Fiume/Getty Images An artificial intelligence can quickly assess basketball game data and extract information about the habits, strengths and weaknesses of players, which could prove valuable for coaches, particularly from smaller teams. Alejandro Rodríguez Pascual at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and his colleagues …

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How Elon Musk and Reddit are leading a war on AI web scraping

AI systems are built on large data sets BlackJack3D/Getty Images The rapid progress in artificial intelligence in recent months is partly due to training on vast data sets of text and images, scraped for free from the internet. Although automated web scraping by search engines has been accepted by website owners for decades, the economic …

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Watermarking tool to prevent AI image editing can easily be thwarted

Artificial intelligences can generate and modify images A proposed digital watermark to prevent artificial intelligence (AI) models from altering real photographs can be thwarted simply by saving the image as a JPEG file, say researchers, suggesting that managing the rise of photorealistic deepfakes will be harder than initially thought. While AIs can generate images from …

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