Rowan Hooper

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1,494 appearances 19 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 4d ago

Rowan Hooper’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The World, the Universe and Us · The Science of Football: Inside the 2026 World Cup · 2 Jul 2026 podcast

When you get an AI, like in AlphaGo, DeepMind's AlphaGo, it was trained to play Go over and over again, millions and millions of times, but it didn't have any baggage from the human knowledge of thousands of years of playing Go. voice-verified

It just learned to itself, and it became... voice-verified

better than any human and it makes me wonder like sometimes well should we really just follow the data and not have this baggage that we might bring to us from being a defender when we were a football player or something. voice-verified

Yeah, but what about, for example – I'm just speaking as an absolute armchair fan – voice-verified

watching the Japan game, right, Japan-Brazil, you think, right, they've got a chance here. voice-verified

while you're 1-0 up, keep going, get another one. voice-verified

But they didn't. voice-verified

And we've seen this with England as well, just sat on a 1-0. voice-verified

And it's not going to, you know, you might get away with it, but you might not, and Japan didn't. voice-verified

And you just think, don't be so defensive. voice-verified

This is a very hot World Cup, as we already mentioned earlier. voice-verified

And we've got these ad breaks or hydration breaks in between. voice-verified

What do we know about that from a science point of view? voice-verified

I mean, people are upset that it's breaking up the flow of the game. voice-verified

But what do we think of it scientifically? voice-verified

And is it good to have these little mini breaks take on some more fluids? voice-verified

You know, players wear strapping if they've got a sore muscle. voice-verified

Could you not wear some sort of cooling cap and cool the brain down? voice-verified

I mean, it wouldn't be... It's not doping. voice-verified

But it's a use of something externally to... You know, you just said it. voice-verified

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