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by mywrathacademia 2650 days ago
I've always wondered if in future an archive like this can be used to train a machine learning powered cyborg boxer or even a robot boxer. This could be one of the incentives for preserving this archive. Surely with AI set to replace a lot of workers, boxers will also be affected
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Youtube has lots of unboxing videos. Maybe one could just play these backwards, and then the robot/cyborg will learn how to properly box stuff instead of unboxing it. Google's ML division could do it very easily since they basically own the video archive already.
If only Google could solve the issues with natural language parsing in humans.

But interesting point nonetheless.

No doubt it won't be long till you can box with a robot who fights in the style of any boxer for whom enough video footage is available to train from.
My thought too. :) Another use (which is perhaps not as far-fetched) is to train a neural network on the collection to detect connected punches. Then we could fire all shitty, corrupt boxing judges and rely on tech instead.