ESPN is testing a generative AI avatar known as ‘FACTS’ Leave a comment

ESPN is testing an AI-generated avatar with the Saturday school soccer present SEC Nation. Dubbed FACTS, it’s going to be “…selling schooling and enjoyable round sports activities analytics” with data drawn from ESPN Analytics, which incorporates knowledge just like the Soccer Energy Index (FPI), participant and crew statistics, and recreation schedules. We haven’t seen the avatar in motion, nevertheless it appears like a bot-ified model of stats encyclopedia Howie Schwab, who was ESPN’s first statistician and ultimately the star of a mid-2000s recreation present, Stump the Schwab.

ESPN has already introduced generative AI to its web site with AI-written recreation recaps. FACTS continues to be in improvement, and there’s no phrase on when it may make its first look on the community.

Within the announcement from its ESPN Edge Innovation Convention, the community claims FACTS is “completely not” made to interchange journalists or different expertise. “FACTS is designed to check improvements out out there and create an outlet for ESPN Analytics’ knowledge to be accessible to followers in an enticing and pleasing section,” the corporate writes.