Pablo Torre Finds Out How Artificial Intelligence Is Already Changing Sports, with Daryl Morey and Sendhil Mullainathan
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Mar 13, 2025 
Daryl Morey, President of basketball operations for the Philadelphia 76ers and a trailblazer in sports analytics, teams up with Sendhil Mullainathan, an MIT professor specializing in algorithms and behavior. They explore how AI is revolutionizing basketball strategies and decision-making, including the use of language models in scouting. The conversation dives into the balance between entertainment and efficiency, the potential for algorithmic bias, and the future roles of experts in sports amidst this tech evolution.
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Unambitious AGI
- Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is less ambitious than creating algorithms that do things humans cannot.
- We already have humans; the real challenge lies in algorithmic advancements beyond human capabilities.
Self-Scouting
- Daryl Morey uses self-scouting in his role with the 76ers, analyzing their team as if he were an opposing team.
- This helps identify potential weaknesses and predict how other teams might strategize against them.
Open vs. Closed World Problems
- Humans cannot outperform algorithms in closed-world problems with defined rules and objectives, like chess.
- Real-world scenarios are open-world problems, with unspecified objectives and moves, offering humans an advantage.