AI camera filmed the referee's head, confusing it with a soccer ball

During a broadcast of a football match of the Scottish football team Inverness Caledonian

artificial intelligence kept confusing the ball with the referee's bald head. Thus, for most of the game, fans watched not the match, but the referee’s movements around the field.

Some time ago, club representativesreported that they are switching to the use of cameras based on artificial intelligence. It was assumed that thanks to the innovation it would be possible to film all home matches in HD quality. However, the plan did not go according to plan, because during the match the artificial intelligence regularly confused the ball with the head of the referee, who was located 35-40 meters from the game.

The most annoying thing is that in view of the coronavirus pandemicinfection, fans were prohibited from gathering in stadiums to watch the game live, so the broadcast was the only chance to see the match. Subsequently, the engineers of Inverness Caledonian announced that they would fix this "bug", and now return to the cameras controlled by operators.