How AI is helping sports teams scout star players

Spotting the next star athlete has always been as much art as science, but artificial intelligence of the sort that's transforming everything from business to healthcare is starting to muscle in on professional athletics too. Computer vision, machine learning and other forms of AI use algorithms to analyze player performance statistics, game videos, and data from various sensors to identify talent that coaches and scouts might otherwise miss. And since the algorithms comb through data far faster than humans can, they give teams in-depth information on more players than previously possible. Professional baseball, basketball and hockey are among the sports now using AI to supplement traditional coaching and scouting. Baseball scouts in particular have long used statistics to evaluate players.