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IBM will help Spanish football team Sevilla find new players with AI.
IBM built Scout Adviser, a platform that will analyze Sevilla FC’s database of potential recruits. Using natural language processing and foundation models, it will create a list of players it thinks Sevilla should tap based on the team’s needs. IBM said it will look at several factors when evaluating recruits:
This includes both quantitative data such as height and weight, speed, number of goals or minutes played, and qualitative unstructured data such as the textual analysis contained in their more than 200,000 scouting reports.
But Sevilla won’t be relying on AI alone. The football club will continue to rely on scouts and analysts as well.
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