Generative AI technology now being used for sports play-by-play commentary. Here's how it works
Briefly

This is the first year where we've brought in the Generative AI component where you actually have match commentary based off of all of the data that is being captured and then match summaries as well," said IBM's Nick Otto.
UCLA Professor Ramesh Srinivasan believes we need to use caution with this type of technology to make sure that humans are still benefiting. 'This is both incredibly exciting and amazing and also concerning because what this means for actual journalists, what this means for human commentators,' Srinivasan said.
But there's not announcers for all those matches so we actually did generate and we were the only announcer for a lot of the matches," Otto said regarding AI's role at the US Open.
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