Should AI score fights to eliminate corruption & ineptitude?

No, because AI is programmed by humans, and you'd have a human determining what styles should be rewarded more than others across the board. A variety of style preferences through the eyes of judges is best.

 

I think it would need a lot of work before we get there, to the point that it won't be practical anymore. In reality what will happen is that boxers will just train and fight in a way to suit the AI judge and there will be a boxing meta similar to Esports which will change with each update.

I suppose we could have multiple AI judges that are all programmed differently coming together to announce a winner, but then that just opens it up to more interpretation and space for corruption as well. Whats to stop someone with power and influence interfering with an AI judge to slightly help their fighter?

Something as straightforward as 5 judges for championship or important fights would help a lot more towards dodgy decisions just due to the fact that it is that much hard to get more judges onside, it doubles the difficulty at least.

 

Would some sensors that calculate impact, on head and body, allow a scoring based on impact (force) of the punches landed being added and then deciding wich round goes to whom?
that is the perfect scenario for me.

 

When AI can accurately and consistently tell me how many times the letter S appears in Strawberry, I will trust it to do this

 

Let me see some examples of AI scoring first, in relation to human judges before I can render an opinion.

 

No thank you. You can keep your AI for yourself, enjoy it

 

I think it could be useful. They should use AI as a companion judge for all the big fights and see how it stacks up against the human judges. That's one way for people to warm up to AI judging. It's also a good way to keep the humans in check because if the human judges are corrupt and they score like the Adelaide Bird, the AI could provide a baseline and expose how corrupt some of these judges can be. It basically put pressure on the human judges to score the fight fairly.

An AI judge was used as an experiment for Usyk/Fury 2 and the judge had the fight for Usyk 118-112. It's slightly wide, but it was the right result.

 

67% love the corruption

 

What is to stop AI judges being corrupted or changed to suit A fighters? I'm thinking guys who are the big names and super stars of the sport, how many of them would agree to get in the ring and be judged by AI without some sort of assurances?

 

It would be interesting to have both AI and humans score a fight in real time and see the results. How close or far apart the scores are.

 

I can see uses for it without necessarily handing the keys to the sport over to it.

For example...
Using it to score or rank judges themselves - not overturning their judgements, but helping to analyse which ones are doing the job properly (ie: should be used more) and which ones are going rogue (and should be used less, trained more, or not be used for important fights).

AI can give it's interpretation of a fight, but it can just as well tell you which rounds are close, which rounds could swing depending on which metrics a particular judge favours, and which rounds are cast iron locks...
Then you can see where a judge consistently favours a particular fighter and whether they're finding excuses (ie: being inconsistent on which metrics they score on each round), or whether a judge is judging rounds that on no metric can go to their preferred fighter, etc.


By doing this, rogue judges could actually be held properly to account by something closer to objective and without individuals having to stick their necks out and call out particular judges for cooking a card or two.