How to use AI in Football or in business (mutatis mutandis)?
Start with the low hanging fruit. i.e. problems or recurring situations with a simple and more static environment like corner kicks vs. the full dynamic of a football game (or a full business environment), but potentially with a high payoff (in business language - profit pools) and explore and generate value.
As Mr. Wang, from the Deep-Mind that developed this specific model, mentions:
“…sport offers a safe and controllable test-bed to develop helpful ai technologies that might one day be used in health care or defense.
After all, football is not a matter of life and death. It is, as Bill Shankly, a former Liverpool manager, once observed, much more important than that…”