Football scouts are reportedly fearing they will be replaced by AI bots.
Football scouts are reportedly fearing they will be replaced by AI bots
Custom built AI systems have already been put in place by bosses of Britain’s biggest football teams to help develop “teams of the future”.
Videos of players are being inputted into machines which help predict the future performance of players on and off the pitch.
The Daily Star reported scouts on £100,000-plus for big name name clubs are “quaking in their boots” the development means they could soo be made redundant.
It added current scouting tech can even be used to predict behavioural pattern of players and how they will cope or crumble under the pressure of fame.
Dr Ryan Beal of tech firm SentientSports, said: “There are some good examples of Premier League clubs producing new metrics and new ways of looking at data in the last few years.
“But this often looks at how a player is performing now.
“There is value to backwards -looking analytics, but we’ve looked at forward-looking situations to challenge scouts on how well they think a player will adapt – using numbers.”
Most premier clubs including Chelsea are using AI bots.