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How Sports Commentaries Can Speed Up AI Development (thestack.com)
An anonymous reader writes: In an effort to shorten the annotation phase prior to neural network learning, Indian researchers are using commentaries intended for human viewers to help machines understand the meaning of action in cricket. The researchers suggest that closed-caption movie commentaries, as well as other types of usefully descriptive pre-existing commentaries could continue to prove helpful in teaching artificial intelligence the meaning of what it is seeing on screen.
I think they should use radio broadcasts of the sporting event on top of the video. That would probably be a much closer approximation.
Cricket is an excellent lazy day sport. Football ( soccer ) or Rugby if you want to give your full attention for 90/80 minutes. They suit different niches.
In cricket, every ball is important because a good bowler works the batsman, taking all 6 balls to try to force him into a mistake. It's very tactical and a different type of sport to football/rugby. I get the impression of baseball that every ball is an attempt to get the guy out, with no attempt to use multiple throws to tease the batsman into a mistake.