Cosmic Queries – Rise of the Machines with Matt Ginsberg

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🗓️ 12 March 2021

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Can machine learning predict the outcome of basketball games and March Madness? On this episode of StarTalk Sports Edition, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Gary O’Reilly, and Chuck Nice talk machine learning with computer scientist and author of The Factor Man, Matt Ginsberg.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Star Talk.
0:04.0	You're a place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:10.0	Star Talk begins right now.
0:14.0	This is Star Talk Sports Edition, a kind of a cosmic queries on AI, sports,
0:22.0	march madness, and what happens if we take sports to other planets?
0:27.0	I got chucked with me, chuck.
0:30.0	Hey, Neil.
0:31.0	All right, and the person who gives authenticity to the entire concept of sports edition, Gary, or Riley, Gary.
0:37.0	Hey, Neil.
0:38.0	All right, an old footballer from the UK.
0:40.0	I was browsing the internet and I found a wiki page on you.
0:45.0	There you were on the soccer field and you were looking buff and with...
0:51.0	It's got great legs.
0:52.0	Sexy legs.
0:53.0	That's great legs.
0:54.0	Sexy legs, baby.
0:56.0	Sexy legs.
0:57.0	So, interesting and Gary, you can dig them up on the internet.
1:01.0	So, we don't have particular expertise in march madness, although we've done a lot of thinking about it.
1:06.0	So, we have to go to a man about town who thinks about this kind of stuff, and that's Matt Ginsberg.
1:12.0	Matt, welcome back to Star Talk.
1:14.0	Thank you.
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