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Google DeepMind has officially launched a full AI system that focuses specifically on advising soccer coaches on corner kicks. TacticAI is described as being \u201can AI assistant for football tactics.\u201d<\/p>\n
Launched in collaboration with Liverpool FC, one of the best-performing teams in the UK, this is an artificial intelligence system that can provide experts with tactical insights through predictive and generative AI<\/a>.<\/p>\n Announcing the news through a blog post on Google DeepMind<\/a> yesterday (Mar. 19) the tool works by \u201cusing a geometric deep learning approach to help create more generalizable models.\u201d<\/p>\n We’re announcing TacticAI: an AI assistant capable of offering insights to football experts on corner kicks. \u26bd<\/p>\n Developed with @LFC<\/a>, it can help teams sample alternative player setups to evaluate possible outcomes, and achieves state-of-the-art results. \ud83e\uddf5\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/8oVYtamGGe<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Google DeepMind (@GoogleDeepMind) March 19, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n This means teams worldwide could sample alternative player setups to evaluate possible outcomes to achieve the results they\u2019re looking for.<\/p>\n To benchmark TacticAI<\/a>, they have a dataset of 7176 corner kicks from the 2020 to 2021 Premier League seasons which are randomly shuffled and split into a training and a test set.<\/p>\n When in use, the tool is built to address three core questions. These include:<\/p>\n In a blind test with football experts, TacticAI\u2019s suggestions were \u201cindistinguishable\u201d from real corners in previous games. When this group was asked to choose preferred tactical advice, they favored the AI\u2019s ideas over the original 90% of the time.<\/p>\n Three years ago, Google announced a multi-year deal with the soccer club Liverpool F.C.<\/p>\n In their first joint paper from 2021, titled \u2018Advancing sports analytics through AI research<\/a>,\u2019 soccer was then highlighted as being an interesting opportunity for AI. A year later, the Graph Imputer was created.<\/p>\n Graph Imputer showed how AI can be used with a prototype of a predictive system for downstream tasks in football analytics. The system was able to predict the movements of players off-camera when no tracking data was available.<\/p>\n The newly unveiled TacticAI is the third exploration into AI and sport by Google DeepMind and Liverpool FC.<\/p>\n Featured Image: Via Google DeepMind<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n
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Google and Liverpool FC\u2019s multi-year partnership<\/b><\/h2>\n