ABSTRACT
Artificial intelligence (AI) is the study of machines or computational methods that can perceive accrue knowledge and subsequently make decisions affecting a domain in a manner aligned to desired objectives. Machine learning is a subfield of AI that involves machines that learn to make decisions using various perceptual experiences. While the history of AI tends to be dated either from the late 1940s or from the first use of the term by John McCarthy, an American computer scientist, in 1955, the history of the relationship between humans and machines and, indeed sport, can be dated in millennia. Since the 1940s, when the idea of “thinking machines” first seemed to be a realistic aspiration, theories have tended to outpace the practical implementation of those theories, mostly hampered by the inability of the technology to keep pace with the ideas. In 2021, the technology has closed the gap with the theory considerably.
