Yes, why not? IBM has signed a ten-year contract with Brazilian Corinthias for its smart platform to help improve the performance of its footballers. And Intel and Alibaba announced a new technology for tracking athletes using AI at CES in Las Vegas. It is closer, with artificial intelligence, the first Champions of Atlético.
I don’t need to discover my colors. Yes rojiblancos. From Atlético de Madrid. And of course I would like him to finally win his first Champions League. This year the final is at the Wanda Metropolitano, and who knows, if you have experiences with artificial intelligence (AI) like the ones that the Brazilian football team Corinthians will start using, or the athletes in the next Tokyo Olympics in 2020, They could also help the mattress makers.
Although just a few months ago, when the Soccer World Cup was held in Russia, some AI platforms, including IBM Watson, made their predictions based on historical data from all the World Cups, to the information of each one of the teams in this event throughout its history, depending on all the weather imponderables,… none, not even IBM, got it right, neither who would be the final winning team, nor that Spain would be left on the road in the round of 16.
But artificial intelligence, in its conjunction with soccer, can not only be used to establish patterns or predict results, without much success at the moment. It can also be used to, for example, capture the performance of the players, both in training and in official matches, and establish by the technical team the appropriate decisions in each case.
And this is what IBM and the Brazilian football club Corinthians are going to do in the next ten years. Thanks to technology and AI solutions, the stadium of the Rio de Janeiro team will be modernized to such an extent that not only the players and the coaching staff will be able to benefit from such transformation, but also the spectators who come to watch the matches will be able to live this new experience.
IBM will help modernize and manage the Corinthians Arena’s entire IT environment with cognitive capabilities through its IBM Watson service platforms and Corinthians fan loyalty “Fiel Torcedor” hosted on the cloud of the American company.
Today Corinthians has more than 117 thousand fans in its program “Fiel Torcedor”, and it is estimated that the Club has more than 33 million followers in Brazil. With this innovation, Corinthians expects to double the number of fans registered in its loyalty program in the next 18 months. Corinthians is one of the most successful Brazilian clubs, having won the national title seven times, in addition to three Brazil Cup trophies and a record 29 state championships. Forbes has listed it as the most valuable soccer club in the Americas.
The agreement with IBM will enable fans to be immersed in unprecedented ways, and may usher in a new era of soccer experience for soccer professionals through artificial intelligence, cloud data processing and storage, and transformation. digital of all the services provided in the world of this sport.
This experience is not the only one that will be developed in the coming years combining different artificial intelligence solutions to help athletes, in addition to improving the experiences of fans who attend live sports events. At the recently concluded CES in Las Vegas, the American company Intel and the Chinese company Alibaba announced their alliance to develop the first technology for tracking athletes. By combining computer vision with AI-based deep learning algorithms, 3D shapes can be extracted from athletes in training and competitions, using multiple standard video cameras without requiring sensors or special suits for athletes. Intel and Alibaba aim to offer this technology at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
Optimized to run on the Alibaba Cloud infrastructure, Intel has developed a new technology concept called “athlete tracking” in 3D, which uses artificial intelligence to analyze video of athletes. This is expected to improve the training process and the audience experience during the actual competition. “This technology has incredible potential as an athlete training tool and is expected to be a game changer in the way fans experience games, creating an entirely new way for broadcasters to analyze, dissect, and reexamine highlights during broadcasts. instant replays, ”says Navin Shenoy, Intel Executive Vice President.
Now yes Atleti. The Champions is closer.
