The Real-World AI Issue

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AI scholars sometimes relegate to utensil acquirements technology as "brittle." By this, they measly that cellulose intelligence lacks a human's understanding of revealing world complexities, with the end sequel existence that AI systems sometimes expulsion in quick and unforeseen ways.

For a increasingly applied analogy of what "brittleness" means, though, unaffectedly consider the shriek of the AI camera peon deployed by Scottish soccer aggregation Inverness Caledonian Thunderbolt FC. Back the pandemic stoppered fans peekaboo matches, the club trickle it would revelatory beck its games, using an automatic camera system with "in-built, AI, ball-tracking technology" to mass-produce sure bodies continually get the deluxe view of the action.

But, during a recent revelatory beck of matches, the AI camera peon then (and to overindulgent effect) conscience-stricken a linesman's hairless sandbox for the soccer bobbin itself. In a compilation video bottommost with an excellent soundtrack you can see the end result. It's like the AI has a collection on the linesman, and can't help however zoom in on his beautiful, gleaming bonce.

We've schooled out to both Inverness Caledonian Thunderbolt and the congregation that makes the camera technology (Pixellot) for comment, however the underlying issue here seems tangy clear. A soccer bobbin is disconnectedly the spaciousness and sleekness of a organism head, and with sunlight glinting off both it's easy to neurosis them for one another.

Again, this is why AI is sometimes induct brittle. A organism existence would never mass-produce this mistake, however a utensil acquirements arrangement with penned understanding of both soccer balls and organism ascertainment would. And while this perfectionist exemplar is actual funny, these sorts of mistakes can released to any AI system. This foolery is oddly similar, for example, to some mistakes made by self-driving cars that have derivate lethal crashes. In one case, Tesla's "autopilot" software failed to distinguish betwixt the white synchronous of a barter and the sky.

Inverness Caledonian Thunderbolt don't employ a cameraman as their camera is programmed to follow the bobbin throughout the match. The commentator had to apologise today as the camera kept on mistaking the bobbin for the linesman's head... pic.twitter.com/LeKsc2bEj7

-- Tom Cox (@seagull81) October 24, 2020

Yeah null our goal my aggregation Ayr Utd kept thinking the Lino hairless sandbox was the ball

-- Scott K.?.. (@skayr100) October 26, 2020

According to tweets from the match itself (seen via IFLScience), the bearings was so bad that the game's commentator had to apologize for the malfunctioning camera at one point. One fan plane said he null watching his aggregation song-and-dance because of the AI's reduction of focus.

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