Did they want to score a ‘goal’ with artificial intelligence?

That Spain should have won the World Cup is not something that I affirm, it is something that according to El Mundo affirmed more than 100,000 simulations made with computers, using artificial intelligence algorithms.

And then? I do not understand football, my thing is basketball, but I admit that news like this suggests more credibility than an octopus or, as in this World Cup, a lemur.

Did they want to score a ‘goal’ with artificial intelligence? A first conclusion could be that it is a relatively recent field, something true; that needs to mature, again correct, but not for all this, perhaps it is the most accurate conclusion. What is artificial intelligence trying to do? Try to reproduce, through mathematical algorithms, the way humans reason, be able to draw their own conclusions. What if machines then try to recreate human behavior, which is what humans do? Well, said quickly and badly, it, just like machines!

There is a football analyst that I like a lot, I guess because of his simple way of presenting his analysis, and I do not think I am wrong if I say that Áxel Torres knows a lot. So why don’t we stop more or less exotic animals, and expensive “calculators”, and ask those who know? Well, it turns out that the good of Mr. Torres predicted Spain would also win., with the added advantage of having made the prediction after the group stage.

It is clear that neither the most expert analysts nor the AI still know how to predict what must have gone through the head of the goalkeeper of Spain, nor did they have information about what Florentino Pérez was plotting behind the back of the Federation, but we cannot undermine the value and potential of artificial intelligence. Being still in its “stone age”, we have not solved the problem of guessing which side a coin will fall on, but the capacity for concentration, reasoning and “strength” of process of the increasingly powerful algorithms, lead us to an imminent revolution, at all scales; I, at least, that if I dare to predict it.