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Jeremy Bloom: Olympian Exposes the NCAA’s Biggest Scam in History | DSH #1583

And those things are still going to happen.

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Jeremy Bloom: Olympian Exposes the NCAA’s Biggest Scam in History | DSH #1583

I mean, just because you have AI judges, some people are like, oh, I don't think that that jump was that good and that degree of difficulty.

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Jeremy Bloom: Olympian Exposes the NCAA’s Biggest Scam in History | DSH #1583

So you'll still have a lot of that.

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Jeremy Bloom: Olympian Exposes the NCAA’s Biggest Scam in History | DSH #1583

But what you won't have is when a race director gets the wrong call.

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Jeremy Bloom: Olympian Exposes the NCAA’s Biggest Scam in History | DSH #1583

Right.

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Jeremy Bloom: Olympian Exposes the NCAA’s Biggest Scam in History | DSH #1583

Or a blatant pass interference call happens in the end zone of an NFC championship game where a team is on the line to go to the Super Bowl in the remaining one minute of the game.

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Jeremy Bloom: Olympian Exposes the NCAA’s Biggest Scam in History | DSH #1583

You won't have that anymore.

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Jeremy Bloom: Olympian Exposes the NCAA’s Biggest Scam in History | DSH #1583

And so we think it's important technology for the Olympics.

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Jeremy Bloom: Olympian Exposes the NCAA’s Biggest Scam in History | DSH #1583

We think it's important technology for football, for baseball, for basketball.

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Jeremy Bloom: Olympian Exposes the NCAA’s Biggest Scam in History | DSH #1583

Some of the binary sports were in or out, ball or strike.

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Jeremy Bloom: Olympian Exposes the NCAA’s Biggest Scam in History | DSH #1583

But what we're really excited at X Games is to use this technology for highly, highly subjective sports.

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Jeremy Bloom: Olympian Exposes the NCAA’s Biggest Scam in History | DSH #1583

And one of the fun challenges was teaching the AI what good style is.

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Jeremy Bloom: Olympian Exposes the NCAA’s Biggest Scam in History | DSH #1583

Because style is much different than a ball or a strike, or the tennis ball was in or out.

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Jeremy Bloom: Olympian Exposes the NCAA’s Biggest Scam in History | DSH #1583

And when you break it down, good style is basically good economy of motion in the air.

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Jeremy Bloom: Olympian Exposes the NCAA’s Biggest Scam in History | DSH #1583

So was the athlete on access?

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Jeremy Bloom: Olympian Exposes the NCAA’s Biggest Scam in History | DSH #1583

What was the amplitude of the jump?

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Jeremy Bloom: Olympian Exposes the NCAA’s Biggest Scam in History | DSH #1583

Did they grab?

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Jeremy Bloom: Olympian Exposes the NCAA’s Biggest Scam in History | DSH #1583

And if so, did they tweak the grab?

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Jeremy Bloom: Olympian Exposes the NCAA’s Biggest Scam in History | DSH #1583

So all these things that a lot of people think, oh, AI could never understand what good style is.

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Jeremy Bloom: Olympian Exposes the NCAA’s Biggest Scam in History | DSH #1583

Yes, it can because you teach it and you bring in the judges and you bring in the athletes, which is what we did at X Games when we launched the world's first AI judge for a subjective sport in Aspen this year to judge the men's snowboarding competition.