Incident 80: AI mistakes referee’s bald head for football — hilarity ensued
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Scottish soccer team Inverness Caledonian Thistle Football Club uses cameras with AI ball-tracking to livestream their matches on YouTube. In a 2020 match against Ayr United, a camera repeatedly tracked an official’s bald head, thinking it was the soccer ball.
Short Description
In a Scottish soccer match the AI-enabled ball-tracking camera used to livestream the game repeatedly tracked an official’s bald head as though it were the soccer ball.
Severity
Negligible
Harm Type
Psychological harm
AI System Description
AI ball-tracking techology using video feed to determine and follow a ball in order to keep the game in focus
System Developer
Unknown
Sector of Deployment
Arts, entertainment and recreation
Relevant AI functions
Perception, Cognition, Action
AI Techniques
supervised learning
AI Applications
image classification, image recognition
Location
Inverness, Scotland, UK
Named Entities
Inverness Caledonian Thistle Football Club, Ayr United, YouTube
Technology Purveyor
Inverness Caledonian Thistle Football Club
Beginning Date
2020-10-24T07:00:00.000Z
Ending Date
2020-10-24T07:00:00.000Z
Near Miss
Harm caused
Intent
Accident
Lives Lost
No
Data Inputs
video feed, pre-tagged soccer match imagery
Incident Reports
Reports Timeline
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