{"id":22924,"date":"2024-04-30T12:10:57","date_gmt":"2024-04-30T06:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=22924"},"modified":"2025-10-10T14:21:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T08:51:13","slug":"tacticai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/tacticai\/","title":{"rendered":"What is TacticAI?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About TacticAI:\u00a0<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is <strong>an AI system<\/strong> that can provide experts with tactical insights, particularly <strong>on corner kicks<\/strong> (football), through predictive and generative AI.<\/li>\n<li>This AI tool can be used by football team managers as an assistant for tactics.<\/li>\n<li>It has incorporated both a <strong>predictive and generative component<\/strong> to allow coaches to effectively sample and explore alternative player setups for each corner kick, and to select those with the highest predicted likelihood of success.<\/li>\n<li>It is developed by <strong>Google\u2019s DeepMind.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Why specifically corners?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Corner kicks are apt for strategising by leveraging AI tools, primarily because they are moments when the game is effectively frozen \u2014 and always <strong>starts from the same kind of position at the corner of the pitch <\/strong>while giving players an immediate opportunity to score.<\/li>\n<li>Strategies for corners are usually also decided long before the players actually go on to the pitch, so that there is no confusion on match day.<\/li>\n<li><strong>What is a corner shot in football? <\/strong>A corner is awarded when the ball passes over the goal line after touching a player of the defending team.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is Predictive artificial intelligence (AI) ?<\/h3>\n<p>Predictive artificial intelligence refers to the use of machine learning to identify patterns in past events and make predictions about future events.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/explained-sci-tech\/ai-in-football-corner-kicks-9297107\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>AI in football: How new tech can help teams take more effective corner kicks<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TacticAI is an AI system that can provide experts with tactical insights, particularly on corner kicks (football), through predictive and generative AI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":22925,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-22924","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}