Some tennis players are not happy with the new AI Judges of Wimbledon, As mentioned by the Telegraph.
This is the first year the famous tennis tournament, which is still ongoing, replace the human line judges, which determine if a ball is in or out, with an electronic call system (ELC).
Many players have criticized AI technology, mainly for the wrong calls, leading them to lose points. Specifically, the British Star Tennis Star Emma Raducanu called on technology to lose a ball that her opponent hit, but instead had to play as if she were in. In a television repetition, the ball actually looked out, Telegraph reported.
Jack Draper, the British No. 1, also said that he felt that some line calls were wrong, saying he did not believe that AI was “100 percent accurate”.
Ben Shelton had to accelerate his fight after he told him that the new AI Line system was ready to stop working due to sunlight. Elsewhere, The players said they couldn’t Listen to the new automated speaker system, with a deaf player saying that without human signals from the line judges, he could not say when he won a point or not.
Technology also met a Blip at a key point during a match this weekend between British player Sonay Kartal and Russian Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, where a ball came out, but technology failed to make the call. The referee had to enter to stop the rally and told the players to repeat the spot because the ELC failed to watch the spot. Wimbledon later apologized, saying it was a “human mistake” and that technology was accidentally closed during the race. Are also Regulated technology So, ideally, the mistake could not be repeated.
Debbie Jevans, president of the All England Club, the organization hosting Wimbledon, hit the Raducanu and Draper, saying: “When we had lines, we kept asking us all the way why we didn’t have an electronic line because it was more expensive than the rest of the tour.”
We have arrived at Wimbledon for comments.
This is not the first time that AI technology has been put under fire as tennis tournaments continue either in part or fully adopt automated systems. Alexander Zverev, a German player, called the same automated line crisis technology in April, Post Image on Instagram showing where a ball called was very out.
Reviews reveal friction to the complete replacement of people with AI, making the hypothesis of why a human balance is perhaps necessary as more organizations adopt such technology. Just recently, Klarna said it was trying to hire human workers after a previous impulse for automated jobs.
