A leading data scientist at artificial intelligence computing company NVIDIA foresees a future of sports scouting and recruiting that is not only more objective but also more remote.
Joshua Patterson, NVIDIA’s director of applied solutions engineering, told SportTechie that the deep learning and full-motion video analytics enabled by graphics processing units (GPUs) could overhaul the way colleges and professional teams evaluate players through the rapid processing of huge reams of data and video.
“That’s kind of the revolutionary thing of GPUs in sports,” Patterson said. “Things that used to not be possible are now becoming trivial.