When I was a boy, I had a friend who loved inventing new sports. And as I found myself, say, rollerblading while trying to strike a football with a hockey stick into a basketball hoop, I always ...

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Many existing sports have their roots in hundreds (if not thousands) of years of human tradition. But what if you asked computers to create a sport? You now know how that can turn out. The design ...

Artificial intelligence has the potential to change lots of things (in good ways) for humanity. Some people, notably Elon Musk, fear an AI arms race could lead to another world war. AI has shown that ...

Nvidia and a design agency called AKQA fed neural networks data about sports that already exist, and they came up with a new one. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in a new ...

It’s not uncommon for new technology to spawn a new sport: Drone racing has become hugely popular around the world, and Segway Polo is apparently still a thing. It’s now artificial intelligence’s turn ...

Many of us in Canada have seen the Heritage Minutes film about the invention of basketball by Canadian James Naismith in 1891, back when the game was played using a peach basket. Today, inventing a ...