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I've always wondered if in future an archive like this can be used to train a machine learning powered cyborg boxer or even a robot boxer. This could be one of the incentives for preserving this archive. Surely with AI set to replace a lot of workers, boxers will also be affected

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0815test|7 years ago

Youtube has lots of unboxing videos. Maybe one could just play these backwards, and then the robot/cyborg will learn how to properly box stuff instead of unboxing it. Google's ML division could do it very easily since they basically own the video archive already.

labster|7 years ago

If only Google could solve the issues with natural language parsing in humans.

But interesting point nonetheless.

andrewstuart|7 years ago

No doubt it won't be long till you can box with a robot who fights in the style of any boxer for whom enough video footage is available to train from.

bjourne|7 years ago

My thought too. :) Another use (which is perhaps not as far-fetched) is to train a neural network on the collection to detect connected punches. Then we could fire all shitty, corrupt boxing judges and rely on tech instead.