Jun 10, 2026 · 28 min · 15 segments
The 2026 World Cup is just around the corner, with England and Scotland heading overseas to play for their countries. FIFA has called it the most technologically advanced tournament yet, with all 48…
Aleks KrotoskiHost
Agnieszka AntoszkiewiczGuest
Stuart FentonGuest
Kevin FongHost
You can immediately see, talking to Stuart there, where AI is gonna fit into what you would otherwise have considered to be a work of art, right? That's wh- how I think about football.
That's why people call it the beautiful game, because it feels like a work of art.
A- a- and part of what Stuart's describing there is, is something that's well known in, in mathematics and machine learning.
You know, i- if you, if you're looking for the characteristics that make an individual optimal, and then you're trying to select other people like that individual.
You know, so say you want someone who's good at completing passes and who is also fast on their feet, so that's two dimensions-
But actually what makes you a good footballer is, is many, many more than two dimensions.
It's how, how many interceptions you make, how fast you run, how often you get injured.
And so when you're into that cloud, it takes more than a human being to be able to spot what is optimal.
And so you can see how an artificially intelligent device or a machine learning application might help you scour the data more effectively and give you competitive advantage.
But I, I, I mean, I can still see the, the role for a human the entire way as, you know, as they say, all the way down because it is still ultimately the interpreters of that AI data.
There's gonna be some kind of economic superiority if you can hire a bunch of people with PhDs in maths and computer science and data analytics to be your data analysts.
You can immediately see, talking to Stuart there, where AI is gonna fit into what you would otherwise have considered to be a work of art, right? That's wh- how I think about football.
That's why people call it the beautiful game, because it feels like a work of art.
A- a- and part of what Stuart's describing there is, is something that's well known in, in mathematics and machine learning.
You know, i- if you, if you're looking for the characteristics that make an individual optimal, and then you're trying to select other people like that individual.
You know, so say you want someone who's good at completing passes and who is also fast on their feet, so that's two dimensions-
But actually what makes you a good footballer is, is many, many more than two dimensions.
It's how, how many interceptions you make, how fast you run, how often you get injured.
And so when you're into that cloud, it takes more than a human being to be able to spot what is optimal.
And so you can see how an artificially intelligent device or a machine learning application might help you scour the data more effectively and give you competitive advantage.
But I, I, I mean, I can still see the, the role for a human the entire way as, you know, as they say, all the way down because it is still ultimately the interpreters of that AI data.
There's gonna be some kind of economic superiority if you can hire a bunch of people with PhDs in maths and computer science and data analytics to be your data analysts.
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