Jeremy Bloom
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And those things are still going to happen.
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.
So you'll still have a lot of that.
But what you won't have is when a race director gets the wrong call.
Right.
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.
You won't have that anymore.
And so we think it's important technology for the Olympics.
We think it's important technology for football, for baseball, for basketball.
Some of the binary sports were in or out, ball or strike.
But what we're really excited at X Games is to use this technology for highly, highly subjective sports.
And one of the fun challenges was teaching the AI what good style is.
Because style is much different than a ball or a strike, or the tennis ball was in or out.
And when you break it down, good style is basically good economy of motion in the air.
So was the athlete on access?
What was the amplitude of the jump?
Did they grab?
And if so, did they tweak the grab?
So all these things that a lot of people think, oh, AI could never understand what good style is.
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.