How Can AI Help Improve Sports Performance?

We all must have noticed that Artificial Intelligence or simply AI is now used almost everywhere in this world, in nearly every sector. AI is being used in the automobile sector, the computer sector, banking sectors and even in the sports sector too.

When it comes to the use of AI in the sports sector, we all must be thinking that AI would be used to help in the creation of components that we use in playing various sports games.

But do you think that the list ends here? If you said yes, then this article is a must-read for you, as in this article we are going to discuss how AI can help sportspersons to improve their sports performance.

So if you want to know about all these things then do follow this article till the end. But before heading towards the main topic let us first discuss everything about Artificial Intelligence, it’s types, uses and many more.

What is Artificial Intelligence?

Before moving forward in this article, let us try and discuss what exactly AI means. So I guess everyone must be knowing about the full form of AI which is Artificial Intelligence, let us break it which will make Artificial and Intelligence.

When we combine both these words, they make Artificial Intelligence, which has its clear meaning that’s a kind of intelligence that has been given to or added to a particular system artificially. Which I guess is one of the correct definition of AI.

Because in the case of AI we add a system with the help of which the computer system can think and because of which it can carry out several processes on its own without the help of a human being.

With the help of AI programming, our computer systems can learn new things, and whenever that knowledge would be needed, at that time they would be able to apply it directly without any human help or permissions. This is the best part of Artificial Intelligence.

Different types of Artificial Intelligence

Several people do not know that there are three types of Artificial Intelligence-

• Artificial Narrow Intelligence– With the help of this type of AI system, we would be able to focus on one single task efficiently. Moreover, it is known as the basic concept of Artificial Intelligence.
• Artificial General Intelligence– In the case of this type of Artificial Intelligence, you would be able to do all kind of works in a better way and efficiently than the first type of AI.
• Artificial Super Intelligence– It is known as the most powerful artificial intelligence type, which is, even more, smarter than humans also.

These were the three types of Artificial Intelligence system created. Let us now have a look at some of the general uses of AI in the next point.

Uses of Artificial Intelligence

As mentioned above that AI is being used in almost every working sector of this world and discussing all the uses of AI would not be possible.

So let us have a look at some of the essential uses of Artificial Intelligence-

• AI is being used in the automobile field, in which the works related to the production of various vehicles, it’s checking, and other add-on services all are done based on Artificial Intelligence.
• AI is being used in almost every computer-related sector or firm, as in those firms, there are very less human workers, and AI systems handle most of the work.
• AI is used in smartphones with the help of which we can get better support, security and many other enhancements are done with the help of artificial intelligence. The facial unlock security system that we use is introduced to us with the help of AI only.

There are various other uses and places where AI is being used regularly. But do you know what a lot of people does not believe, that’s AI can be used in the field of sports for improving sports performance. While it’s true, in this article, we are going to discuss all those reasons and points, which will state that AI is being used in sports for enhancing the overall sports performance.

Can we use AI in sports?

We have already discussed that AI is being used in every sector available in this world, which also includes the sports sector.

There are several uses of AI in the sports sector, let us have a look at them one by one by listing our the problems in the sports sector and how AI helps to solve them.

So, these are the areas where AI is used in sports industry to solve problems-

1. Knowing about a player’s actual value

We all must be knowing that before taking a sports player to the official team and let them play for their team or country, several checks take place. Moreover, you must also be knowing that these checks are the places where most of the problems occur, in case of problems means, some issues such as-

• Sometimes we choose a wrong player based on these check-ups performance, and hence we are unable to know about the real potential of that person. Therefore because of this reason the team has to pay for it in his games.
• We are sometimes unable to know about the complete talent of a particular sportsperson and hence as we may know that teams have to buy these sportspersons, which means in some cases we are unable to provide the exact value to that sportsperson.

Let us have a look at how AI would be able to solve these problems-

• With the help of several AI-based systems, we would be able to know more about a player’s actual value. With the help of these AI systems, we would be able to evaluate the player thoroughly with which we will get absolute values and hence based on those results. We would be able to make our decision.
• The next problem that will be solved by AI in case of scouting and recruiting under the sports section is getting the absolute market value. So with the help of evaluations based on AI systems, we would also be able to know about the absolute market value of that sportsperson and everything would be fairer. It will be based entirely on the talent of that particular person.
• With the help of AI use in sports, we would be able to make the best decisions in scouting and recruitment. Moreover, we all would be able to see the benefits of these right decisions in the game itself.

2. Training and knowing about the performance of a player

The next type of problem that we face in the sports section is training and working on the performance of a particular sportsperson. We all must have noticed that we are following the older training and performance enhancement methods in the sports sector, with the help of which we can get limited results only.

Some problems based on the Training and Performance of a player-

• Firstly there are a lot of problems that occur in knowing about the actual performance value of a sportsperson. Sometimes we are unable to know about the actual performance of a sportsman, because of which several issues arise.
• We use all the older type of training methods with the help of which we would be able to get older training results only and hence we will remain limited to a particular segment only. Moreover, we would not be able to know about the area of strengths with those older training and performance enhancements methods. Other than that we would not be able to find the actual area of improvement of sportspersons.

How AI will solve these problems-

• With the help of AI-based systems, we would be able to analyze the actual performance of an individual. As we may know that in older performance analyzing methods, we play in groups because of which we are unable to examine the actual value. Still, with the help of these AI-based systems, we would be able to analyze the real value of every individual. As these AI, methods are used on one sportsperson at a time for better results.
• Secondly, we would be able to know about the area of strengths of a particular sportsperson with the use of AI systems in the sports sector. In case of other methods where AI is not used, we are unable to sometime know about the actual area of strengths of a sportsperson, but with the use of AI-based systems, we would be able to know about the actual values easily without any confusions or wrong values.
• The next benefit of using AI in the sports sector is that we first would be able to know about the area of strengths along with that we would also be able to know about the areas in which we need to improve. So if you are unaware of the area of improvements, then these AI-based systems would be helpful and beneficial.

3. Maintenance of Health and Fitness

1f you are a sportsperson then I am sure that you have not only need to work on your game section but along with that, you need to work on your health and fitness section also. Because by working on your health we would be able to get optimum results out of our game.

Some problems that we face in the maintenance of our health and fitness-

• The first problem that we face under health and fitness is that we are unable to get the exact results from the analyzing of a sportsperson’s health and fitness. Because of which several problems arise.
• We face a lot of problems in predicting fatigue and injuries with older health and fitness methods. With the help of which we are unable to work correctly on our health, and it also affects our sports performance.

How AI will make you get rid of these problems-

• With the use of AI in sports we would be able to monitor the exact value of health and fitness of a sportsperson, with the help of which we would be able to work correctly on our health.
• The next benefit of using AI is the sports sector is that we would also be able to mean the exact value of fatigue and injuries that occurs to a sportsperson. With the help of which we would be able to work on those fatigue areas and injuries and hence would be able to enhance our game by working on those sections.

4. Broadcasting area

Till now we have discussed all the factors which contain sports playing in it, but now we are going to talk about an element which is also as important as other above-listed points. That point is the broadcasting and advertisement section of sports with the help of which we would be able to watch sports games over various platforms.

Some of the problems that we face in the broadcasting area-

• With the older methods, we would not be able to get the optimum results in the broadcasting and advertisement section. Moreover, we would not be able to work on various camera angles with the help of which we can offer the best shots to our viewers.
• In the case of an advertisement, we would not be able to get maximum results out of those ads.

How the use of AI will make us get rid of these problems-

• With the use of AI, we would be able to get the best possible camera angles, with the help of which we will get the best shots, and hence our viewers would be able to enjoy those shots very much.
• The next benefit of using AI in sports is that we would be able to get the best results out of the advertisement section. This means by working with these AI systems, we would be able to make those ads reach more and more viewers at a time.

This was all about the use of AI in sports and how AI can improve the overall performance of a sportsperson. Although there are many more such sections in sports where AI is offering several advantages, the above-listed sections are the most important ones.

Summary

Here we have come to the end of this article, in which we have a look at various points which states that Ai offers several benefits and enhancements to the sportspersons in their sports section. Other than that, we also had a look at what is AI and what are the different sectors where AI is being used.