'You Cannot Be Serious': IBM Taps Emotions for Wimbledon Highlights

John McEnroe, known for his on-court outbursts, would be in his element at next month's Wimbledon tennis tournament, where every fist-pump of elation and cry of angst will be analyzed by artificial intelligence to compile video highlights. The All England Lawn Tennis Club and its technology partner IBM said the Watson AI platform had been taught to recognize players' emotions, which it would combine with an analysis of crowd noise, players' movements and match data. IBM's Sam Seddon said the company was using machine learning to trying to find those seconds when players had a heightened sense of emotion after an exciting shot or rally. "If you've got the visual element from the player, and you know that it's a tight pressure point in the match, then those are the points that you are going to really target in on in the highlights package," he said in an interview.