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PTFO - How Artificial Intelligence Is Already Changing Sports, with Daryl Morey and Sendhil Mullainathan

Le Batard & Friends Network

Dan Le Batard

Sports

4.88.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Everyone is talking about A.I. now, but what we haven't heard is an updated, informed discussion of what, exactly, it will do to the sports world. So in our first on-stage episode, at the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, Pablo hosts an actual verified genius... and a pioneering NBA executive who gets to be sarcastically referred to as one. We discover how the Philadelphia 76ers already consult large language models, why artificial general intelligence is actually unambitious and much more. But rest assured: At this moment of tension between entertainment and efficiency, the forecast is Kyle Lowry with a chance of Gasol. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to Pablo Torre finds out.

0:02.1

I am Pablo Torre, and today we're going to find out what this sound is.

0:07.0

And anger is all that drives Sixers fans, as far as I can tell.

0:11.0

Right after this ad.

0:14.0

You're listening to Draft King's Network.

0:31.9

Okay. Network. So I need to jump in at the top of this episode to give you a warning.

0:36.5

A couple weeks ago, I was asked if I wanted to record a live episode of this show

0:40.9

at the Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, which is a conference, if you did not know,

0:46.1

that started at a lecture hall at MIT when I first attended it 16 years ago now.

0:50.9

But quickly, it moved into a convention center in Boston

0:53.9

on account of the thousands

0:55.3

and thousands of people who wanted to actually go. And many of those people annually include

1:01.1

the most powerful people in sports at this point. We're talking league commissioners, billionaire

1:06.0

owners, Barack Obama one year, pretty much every data-driven team executive in American sports and beyond shows up.

1:14.5

But the guy presiding over all of this, the conference's co-founder, is Daryl Morey.

1:20.5

Daryl is now the president of basketball operations for the Philadelphia 76ers,

1:24.7

and he is also, it turns out, a licitor of this show. And so I do feel

1:30.2

journalistically obligated to point out that the Sixers are now about 20 games under 500,

1:35.2

having a truly horrible season, as we'll discuss. But the thing I really wanted to find out about

1:41.4

at Sloan, even more pressingly, was a question I did not have a good

1:45.4

answer to, I realized. Despite how much everybody is always talking about large language models,

1:51.5

LLMs, like chat GPT, and also when the robots are finally going to achieve artificial

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