OT Paul Allen wants to replace refs with robots

Some day it will happen but we will all be long-gone by then.

 

I tend to agree with him.

I would rather have the games called closer than have favoritism and star treatment.

 

It will happen a LOT sooner than you think. Machine learning is THE hot topic in the high tech industry. The amount of research and development going on in this area is staggering. We are already seeing self driving car and self navigating drone prototypes. Computer vision technology is already reasonably mature and now it's just a matter of developing the deep learning algorithms to make this all into reality.

I plan on living at least 35 more years. Think about where we were 35 years ago. Most homes didn't even have cable TV or a VCR, let alone a computer and an internet connection. We've lived through the personal computer revolution, the internet revolution and the cell phone revolution. This is the next big paradigm shift. It will be here before you know it - at least the technology will be. It's up to the league and the players to decide if they want to use that technology.

BNM

 

Lunar basketball won't have refereeing because in 1/6 gravity, the ball will be out of control anyway.

 

This can be done in steps, not all at once. Tennis does it.

Start with cameras set at angles to go down the lines of the court. No more replay needed to determine whether the player stepped out or not. Same with the three point line.

Start with these obvious and easier levels of automated refereeing and maybe it will help the refs be more accurate on the judgment calls like fouls, etc, because they can stay glued to the action instead of looking down at boundary lines etc.

Sorry @dviss1 . This is probably something like a nightmare to you. The fear of your kind going out of business to some robot must be sickening.

 

Well, I really don't see why we haven't put pressure sensors along the out of bounds lines so that they light up if you step on them. That would at least remove a lot of the question about whether someone stepped out or not.

Shit, these guys all wear pressure sleeves anyway. Why not design full body suits with sensors so that refs can see when someone slaps the shit out of a shooter? Give the refs glasses so that when a player gets slapped on the arm, they can actually see the arm turn red. This is all very doable, even with our technology today.

 

Great. Something else for the Russians to hack.

 

Just adjust the pressure sensors it takes a certain amount or force before lighting up. The league could modify as the games go on based on fluidity of the game until they have dialed in on an accepted level of contact.

 

My guess is that baseball does this first. Since the technology exists and is easier to implement. But then people would say that robot baseball umpires are boring. It will just be added to the litany of complaints.

 

Not if its the ump still making the call. Give him a little hand held buzzer. It goes off when its a strike and he makes the call. Keep the emotional calls of tense 3-2 situations etc. people wont even notice after a while i bet. As long as the umps kept thier enthusiasm up.

 

Like... soldiers of a roman army in full march. Forward lean and all. So archaich. Lol

 

Simply fill the ball with a heavier substance, probably a liquid.

 

I'd like to see Paul Allen replaced by a robot.

Then maybe we'd see something resembling logical decisions and eventually a Championship.

Remember that one Championship we won with PA as owner...uh, nevermind.

 

was gonna say the same thing

plus, I'd rather have the robot refs there and do nothing except ok fouls. Let the players call foul like we do playing without refs. Have the robots there to override Draymond Green calling foul every five seconds.

 

Where does it say that in the article? Funny that people responded your headline without reading the article.