Each week, we spotlight a cool innovation recommended by some of the industry's top tech writers. This week's pick is an AI that's creating new sports.
A design firm used artificial intelligence to invent a new sport, said Anthony Ha at Tech Crunch. The digital agency, AKQA, which does work with Nike, fed data from about 400 different sports to a neural network with the question in mind, "Can we invent the next basketball or football?" The AI produced rules and concepts.
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