AI March Madness: Bracket Predictions About to Change Everything
The NCAA men’s basketball tournament, also known as March Madness, is changing the game. AI has entered the arena, and numbers are in.
One of the surest signs that AI is taking over the world is when your favorite March Madness bracket pool wins. Artificial intelligence in sports betting is improving the chances of predicting a perfect bracket to go for a win.
What’s the deal?
This experiment was bound to happen so that we could make the AI look stupider than us. If AI can honestly make accurate predictions
, it should scare the daylights out of us. At least, that is what Ian Levy, 4C Predictions, thinks he is aiming for with his March Madness bracket challenge that pits his AI programmers against the world’s best-known sports gamblers. The challenge is running for $1 million because Ian believes data will beat humans.
AI vs Human:
Ian’s angle is to wager with confidence that the AI bracket his company produces can beat that of Sean Perry, a sportsbettor. He is famous for refusing to accept a portion of a pot worth $9.3 million and ending up with nothing. Using loads of data, insider information, and analytics, he did win millions over his career and believes his ultimate goal is to bring a winning advantage to the average Joe.
A scientific angle:
As basketball is inherently unpredictable, with ups and downs, creating a perfect bracket comes down to luck. Making no promises, Sheldon Jacobson’s bracket analysis, claims to deliver a better bracket, as good as the next AI system. A computer science professor at Illinois, he is trying to build a bracket using science; Sheldon might have been an AI before AI.
ChatGPT bracket predictions are also going around and making waves. The human data might have provided some humanity to ChatGPT since it made the same prediction as everybody else: Duke will win the NCAA tournament and Houston will lose the NCCA tournament.
Conclusion:
March Madness is one of the most exciting times, made even more so using different AI systems to create bracket predictions. For those who fear AI will lead humans to bad places, it will not be so when it comes to sports. There is always an element of fun and good luck that humans seem to carry. But as AI evolves, predictions are going to be more accurate, and data will win the game.
