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Sports Highlights via AI

Posted by michael on from the sportscenter-replaced-by-small-shell-script dept.

nazarijo writes "Found via Brian Chin's Weblog, it looks like scientists and researchers at Microsoft are working on ways to automatically discover game highlights. This article in the New Scientist discusses several research groups, some in Europe, working to make these ideas a reality. Microsoft research is doing this, too, with highlights from the Mariner's shown as examples. A choice quote from the end of the MSR piece: 'By hitting the highlights of baseball games, we get to view only the best parts of multimedia life. And who knows what's next? Maybe political speeches will become shorter, or the eleven o'clock news will last only 5 minutes, the witty banter between news anchors edited out.'"

4 of 129 comments (clear)

  1. Yay. by Vlion · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    yay. >:-|
    Now the rest of the world can sound-byte themselves.
    WhoooHooo.

    Why don't they do something actually useful like work on P-NP problems?
    (yes that IS useful and cool)

    --
    /b
    |f(x)dx = F(b) - F(a)
    /a
  2. *** MOD PARENT DOWN *** by IWantMyNickBack · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Parent post contains hardcore pornographic ASCII art.

  3. wow by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    All you anti-MS types should realize something from this article. Microsoft is putting more money into research than pretty much any other company out there -- producing technologies like this. And yet the only thing slashdotters do is ignore the positive and focus on oft-times imaginary negatives. MS isn't perfect, but what is? (linux isn't perfect by any means, so don't even say it)

  4. dood, I just solved this by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    grep -i "YES!" marv-albert-transcript.txt

    Precision: 98.2%
    Recall: 97.6%