Technology and sport have a fairly motley relationship already . lumber on to Twitter during a soccer match ( or football as it ’s properly known * ) and as well as people tweeting ambiguous statements like " YESSS " and " oh no mate " to about 20,000 incomprehensible retweets , you ’ll in all likelihood see a lot of ill about the   TV assistant reader ( VAR ) and occasionally destination - bank line technology not doing its task .

rooter of Scottish football team Inverness Caledonian Thistle FC experienced a unexampled hilarious technical bug during a lucifer last weekend , but in all satin flower , you ’d be heavily - pressed to say it did n’t improve the see experience dramatically .

The clubhouse announced a few week ago it was affect from using human camera operator to cameras controlled by AI . Theclub proudly announcedat the time the new " Pixellot system uses tv camera with in - build , AI , nut - trailing technology " and would be used to bewitch HD footage of all home compeer at Caledonian Stadium , which would be air directly to time of year - ticket holders ' homes .

edit out to last Saturday , when the robot cameras were given a newfangled challenge that had n’t been foreseen : A linesman with a barefaced caput .

The AI tv camera come along to mistake the man ’s bald head for the egg for a lot of the match , repeatedly swing out back to follow the linesman instead of the actual game . Many viewerscomplainedthey drop their team grade a finish because the tv camera " keep thinking the Lino bald-headed head was the ball , " and some even suggested the golf club would have to provide the linesman with a toupee or lid .

With no fan allowed in the arena due to Covid-19 restrictions , the fans of   Inverness Caledonian Thistle FC and their opponents   Ayr United could only watch via the cameras , and so were treated to mostly a aspect of the linesman ’s question instead of any exciting moment of the mates that were happen off - camera , though some fans saw this as a bonus yield the   usual quality of performance .

Sound on .

As you’re able to see from the highlight reel above ,   the AI - operate photographic camera continuously follow the electrician ’s head , especially struggling as the ball fall down towards the ground near him . you’re able to practically hear its intellection process : " ball ball ball bald head , there ’s a bald head , zoom in on the barefaced head . "

The object realisation technology could clearly do with a bit of a tweak , or else the squad might really have to implement the policy of bald-pated referee being forced to wear a sombrero to differentiate themselves from the ball .

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