Why artificial intelligence could be the future of betting - eventually
If you want to summarise 25 years of widely available web, it’s a promise that became a threat, or at best a disappointment. The good bits keep turning bad quickly, like those roast chicken slices from Sainsbury’s.
Take cashout. You might have become a confident online gambler, using tools, offers and opportunities you could never have imagined in the Extel-and-fags era. Then cashout arrived, pushing you to a precipice of indecision, fretting that after being completely right about the first three in your yankee, you might inexplicably be really wrong about the last one. It’s like a police caution. You’ve sort of got away with it, mate, now clear off.
There was a good piece in the Post recently by James Willoughby about artificial intelligence and deep learning, which implied that, at some point, some punters who get it will be able to use AI to gain a punting edge.
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