We're back star talk support edition cosmic queries we started out with march madness and we're now we're thinking about sports on other planets what role ai could play in predicting winners. We've got matt ginsburg with us becoming a friend of star talk so it's not your first rodeo with us thanks for coming back Matt. He says if a game of basketball was held on mars indoors with us atmospheric pressure would we finally be able to dunk it from the three point line and would it count as a three or do we need another planet? And then he's science the one that mj that's michael jordan came from so uh mmm your answers please yeah.
Can machine learning predict the outcome of basketball games? 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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