How AI Helps Sports Professionals Maintain a Competitive Edge

Although it took a few years for professional sports to catch up with the worlds of finance, medicine, and research, data analysis is now fundamental to many aspects of athletic endeavor (and business). Now, with datasets growing from the statistical observations of scouts and coaches to huge caches of information from wearables and training ground sensors, artificial intelligence (AI) is putting all of this data to work in professional sports. This article provides key examples of AI being used to power elite performance in the world of sports. In recent years, much research has highlighted the possibility of coaches and athletes employing AI to analyze their data and help them make decisions. A recent study looked at how neural networks (AI "brains") applied to weight training data can improve performance.