If you follow Canadian news media you may have seen a report motivated by a recent Waterloo press release about PitcherNet, an AI tool that helps baseball scouts recognize developing talent. This is an article (14 page PDF) that explains the technology in more detail. Now you could do what the old-fashioned baseball scouts used to do, which is to break down the task of pitching a baseball into component parts and analyzing talent against a set of formal parameters. But an AI is able to consider orders of magnitude more variables, and often variables that can't even be described. The trick, though, is to take that awareness and represent it as something scouts can see and take home to their managers. Human-accessible data representation - like the image - is going to be a thing, and not necessarily something AI will be able to do on its own.
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