AI bullshit

[holmesfield_owl]

Yorkshire Evening post using AI has us finishing 21st on 39 points! 🤣

I'd wager a lot of money that turns out to be an awful prediction.

https://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/sport/football/leeds-united/artificial-intelligence-predicts-final-championship-table-leeds-uniteds-position-and-points-4710892

[Gamblor]

It will be a crap prediction because it’ll be based on team performance over the past year. It can’t be based on players as many squads are far from being finalised and it’s difficult to predict how new players from different leagues will perform.

More importantly though, this should not be called AI. It’ll be a regression model, which is a technique that has been used for decades. Regression is something very useful in making predictions, but requires a decent dataset and that doesn’t exist. Simply put - shit in, shit out, but they’ve slapped an AI label on it to give the impression something sophisticated is going on. 

[mkowl]

Well the fact that 50 points was required to be safe last season and I would hazard a guess similar again this, means the AI level employed here is at the level of a ZX Spectrum from about 1985 

[Skamp]

I'm more surprised that a Leeds based paper is predicting that Leeds come, erm, well, erm, top.

Shocked