Manchester United have been dealt a crushing Marcus Rashford blow by an AI Supercomputer ahead of the start of the new Premier League season. OK Computer The Premier League season begins tomorrow night and that can mean one thing and one thing only. Supercomputers! Supercomputers as far as the eye can see! We’re going to desperately try to avoid getting too bogged down in the standard general Supercomputer nonsense of bookmakers (in fairness to them, very successfully) generating free publicity for themselves by pretending that predicting things like Premier League tables purely on the basis of betting odds-implied likelihood requires the input of a supercomputer rather than at the absolute most a calculator.
Because if we start down that road we’ll be here all week. But we cannot resist this one from the Mirror , because it’s both a baffling headline and a fresh new direction for Supercomputer-based guff. Premier League supercomputer predicts every team’s top goalscorer in blow for Man Utd Now this starts off in predictable fashion.
It comes from somewhere calling themselves ‘Coin Poker’ which is absolutely textbook Supercomputer areas. But what’s even more fun about this one is that it isn’t even just a Supercomputer, it’s an AI Supercomputer. And what that AI Supercomputer appears to have done is just have a bit of a guess at the identity of each club’s leading scorer and how many goals they might get.
Which is all fine. Well, not fine. But you know wha.