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IBM's Watson Supercomputer Is Getting Into Fantasy Football

posted by cmn32480 on Thursday August 13 2015, @01:50PM   Printer-friendly

"exec" writes in with an article from Vice.com:

So instead of ending up with a malfunctioning killer AI army that tech mavens are horrified about, IBM is betting research money on making its most recent well-known supercomputer, Watson, a fantasy sports manager. You know, the "Jeopardy!" winner, the one that's also going to be a sleuthy doctor's assistant soon.

IBM announced in a statement today that it's partnering up Watson's ecosystem with Edge Up Sports to help fantasy football coaches optimize their teams.

"Successful fantasy owners dedicate several hours per week strategizing for fantasy football. Still, with so much information available, it's difficult to stay current on the latest news and information surrounding players," the statement read.

And it looks like Watson is going to trawl through a lot of real-time updates and tweets to advise fantasy football coaches how they'd like to up their game.

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  • (Score: 2) by looorg on Thursday August 13 2015, @03:29PM

    by looorg (578) on Thursday August 13 2015, @03:29PM (#222347)

    The name makes it a bit odd. It's called football but there are only one or two people per team that are actually allowed to touch the ball with their feet (kicker and punter, I could be wrong -- I'm not really a fan this is just how much I have been able to notice when I attended a few games). On the other hand if they called it Handball it would be just as odd since that already exists as a sport to, I don't know how common it is in the USA but it's fairly common in northern Europe (naturally it's way behind actual football or soccer and icehockey but it still pulling respectable spectator numbers). It might have made more sense if they had just called it American style Rugby.

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  • (Score: 2) by WizardFusion on Thursday August 13 2015, @03:55PM

    by WizardFusion (498) on Thursday August 13 2015, @03:55PM (#222363) Journal

    American style Rugby

    Except that in proper rugby they wear very little protection. In this american sport, they have so much protection, it's silly.