[Albion] The Brighton algo & threat from AI

[Couldn't Be Hyypia]

There's a very interesting article on The Times today about Tony Bloom. Well worth a read (not sure if there is a pay wall).

Brighton owner Tony Bloom: Poker still influences a lot of what I do

Tony Bloom is talking about the best bet he ever had. Not the biggest, not the most lucrative. The one that gave him most pleasure. It’s 1996, long before Starl

www.thetimes.co.uk

Lots of chat about his gambling and Starlizard and how he and Brighton are the company's largest client - we spend £3m a year with them.

It got me wondering. What will the impact of AI be on this kind of business? Putting the existential threat to one side if you can, the democratising effect of AI seems evident. Could the insights that previously needed a computing power and PhD-led organisation to succeed soon be available to all?

In which case, where does that leave Brighton's much praised data-led recruitment strategy?

 

[Javeaseagull]

Oh good. Something else to worry about.

 

[Paulie Gualtieri]

My mates got a Microsoft certification and reckons out next manager will be an algorithm

 

[Comrade Sam]

Have you seen the people that run the world and our public and private services? Could AI be more selfish and useless? As for Starlizard, I'm not going to lose any sleep.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

My mate's got a Microsoft certification and he reckons AI is shitehouse

 

[Ⓩ-Ⓐ-Ⓜ-Ⓞ-Ⓡ-Ⓐ]

I just sold my car to an algorithm

 

[KZNSeagull]

That's a very interesting article. Re the OP's point, StarLizard or TB's own algorithms are already a form of AI but AI is only as good as the data that feeds it. Perhaps StarLizards data is unique? TB is ahead of the game and is not going to want to lose that advantage, so even if others catch up to the level TB is currently at, he will have moved on.

 

[Couldn't Be Hyypia]

Oh good. Something else to worry about.

Or not. I'm sure Uncle Tony has spotted this decades before I did.

 

[Blackadder]

Relax. ELO were going on about it back in 1981 (Yours Truly).

"I drive the very latest hovercar
I don't know where you are
But I miss you so much till then
I met someone who looks a lot like you
She does the things you do
But she is an IBM."

 

[GT49er]

Oh good. Something else to worry about.

Not really! By the time that happens - if it happens - many of us NSCers will no longer be worrying about anything. I'm, pretty sure the world will end one day, but I'm also pretty sure it won't involve me!

 

[pocketseagull]

I think at times we downplay the skill and talent of our recruitment team, for example Caicedo was well identified as a talent by bigger clubs but only we had the experience and nous to get it it done. Until there's a time that all transfers are done by AI we can maintain an advantage by being better at the human side.