How AI is changing gymnastics judging

Re:How AI is changing gymnastics judging by beambot on Thursday January 25, 2024 @12:03PM (#39131814)

At least with an AI-based system, it's presumably consistent across performances & devices and can be used during training. While not "objective" per se, it's certainly better than an human judge that is none of these things.

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Re:How AI is changing gymnastics judging by pfisherman on Thursday January 25, 2024 @12:27PM (#39132074)

> Consistent across performances and devices

LOL! I think the assumption that an ML system would be robust across these contexts is not well founded. Things as innocuous as the lighting, background, or placement of athletic tape could easily wreck a model like this.

The thing about human judges is that the modes of failure are pretty well known at this point; and human perception and visual processing is pretty robust to perturbation.

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Re:How AI is changing gymnastics judging by dimitrios1 on Thursday January 25, 2024 @12:13PM (#39131934)

The concept of judging has always included some form of bias. There is no such thing as an impartial judge. AI won't change this, it will just include a different set of biases. I'd rather be judged by a human than a machine.

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Re:How AI is changing gymnastics judging by thfuran on Thursday January 25, 2024 @03:59PM (#39135203)

>it will just include a different set of biases

One that many people who would admit the possibility in a human judge will likely insist cannot be present.

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