Championship thread 25/26! (28 Viewers)

[fernandopartridge]

I remember Sheff Utd last year signed players from AI data but couldn’t recall seeing any of them in their squads each week so I just googled them…

Christian Nwachukwu: A winger signed from Bulgarian side Botev Plovdiv in February 2025. 0 games played so far

Jefferson Cáceres: A striker/winger who arrived from FBC Melgar in Peru, also signed in February 2025. Played 0 games and sold to Dunfermline Athletic.

Ehije Ukaki: A winger signed from Botev Plovdiv in the summer of 2025. Played 0 games.

Mihail Polendakov: A teenage right-back signed from Septemvri Sofia in Bulgaria in June 2025. Played 0 games


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All the money that's invested in this drivel, honestly the tech bros have had politicians right over

 

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[shmmeee]

All the money that's invested in this drivel, honestly the tech bros have had politicians right over

If an organisation was asking an LLM in 2024 for signings that’s very much no one’s fault but that organisation. Not sure that’s what it was tho.

 

[fernandopartridge]

If an organisation was asking an LLM in 2024 for signings that’s very much no one’s fault but that organisation. Not sure that’s what it was tho.

I haven't said otherwise, it still doesn't mean that politicians haven't been had over by the potential capability of AI

 

[JSL]

I haven't said otherwise, it still doesn't mean that politicians haven't been had over by the potential capability of AI

I think everyone has. Not just politicians. People see it as time saving, but its not if you have to double check everything

 

[shmmeee]

I haven't said otherwise, it still doesn't mean that politicians haven't been had over by the potential capability of AI

If we get AI the potential is huge. We do not have AI yet but we’re getting a lot closer than I thought we would. But yes politicians have once again been suckered by Silicon Valley hype men who have been suckering politicians since Gates was hawking Windows.

 

[Sky_Blue_Dreamer]

If we get AI the potential is huge. We do not have AI yet but we’re getting a lot closer than I thought we would. But yes politicians have once again been suckered by Silicon Valley hype men who have been suckering politicians since Gates was hawking Windows.

But isn't the potential problem that AI only truly becomes useful when we don't have to check it? In effect it becomes sentient. At which point we're no longer necessary.

If AI ever became sentient in that manner, I think the only possible sensible conclusion it could come to is that there needs to be a reduction in humans. It's what we've done with species that become overpopulated and are causing huge changes to the environment and ecosystem.

If you wrote down all the things we're causing but changed it from humans to rats, or deer, or beavers etc. you know full well the course of action would be to have a cull, but we obviously don't do that because it's our own species. AI would have no such qualms.

 

[wingy]

But isn't the potential problem that AI only truly becomes useful when we don't have to check it? In effect it becomes sentient. At which point we're no longer necessary.

If AI ever became sentient in that manner, I think the only possible sensible conclusion it could come to is that there needs to be a reduction in humans. It's what we've done with species that become overpopulated and are causing huge changes to the environment and ecosystem.

If you wrote down all the things we're causing but changed it from humans to rats, or deer, or beavers etc. you know full well the course of action would be to have a cull, but we obviously don't do that because it's our own species. AI would have no such qualms.

Isn't this what's happening now,let alone the competition with us for power water ect, the globe is going to end up like a circuit board, plug in a capacitor here,a resistor there.

 

[skyblueelephant76]

QPR planning to move their academy to Category One. Hopefully something we'll look at if we go up.

Queens Park Rangers to apply for Category 1 academy status - BBC Sport Queens Park Rangers to apply for Category 1 academy status

 

[Captain Dart]

I remember Sheff Utd last year signed players from AI data but couldn’t recall seeing any of them in their squads each week so I just googled them…

Christian Nwachukwu: A winger signed from Bulgarian side Botev Plovdiv in February 2025. 0 games played so far

Jefferson Cáceres: A striker/winger who arrived from FBC Melgar in Peru, also signed in February 2025. Played 0 games and sold to Dunfermline Athletic.

Ehije Ukaki: A winger signed from Botev Plovdiv in the summer of 2025. Played 0 games.

Mihail Polendakov: A teenage right-back signed from Septemvri Sofia in Bulgaria in June 2025. Played 0 games


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Surely there is a lesson to be learned here.

 

[shmmeee]

But isn't the potential problem that AI only truly becomes useful when we don't have to check it? In effect it becomes sentient. At which point we're no longer necessary.

If AI ever became sentient in that manner, I think the only possible sensible conclusion it could come to is that there needs to be a reduction in humans. It's what we've done with species that become overpopulated and are causing huge changes to the environment and ecosystem.

If you wrote down all the things we're causing but changed it from humans to rats, or deer, or beavers etc. you know full well the course of action would be to have a cull, but we obviously don't do that because it's our own species. AI would have no such qualms.

I mean you have been banging the “kill all the humans” drum for a while so I’m going to say maybe we just don’t let you have the AI

 

[Sky_Blue_Dreamer]

I mean you have been banging the “kill all the humans” drum for a while so I’m going to say maybe we just don’t let you have the AI

I don't want the AI.

I'm just pointing out that if you were to look at it entirely unemotionally and independent of any bias towards any particular species, as you would expect technology to do, then its conclusion would be 'Too many humans'.

I also assume it wouldn't kill us all off as, like every species, we do have a function within our environment and ecosystem. We just need to manage those impacts. If not nature will, eventually, manage it itself in a very similar fashion.

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

I don't want the AI.

I'm just pointing out that if you were to look at it entirely unemotionally and independent of any bias towards any particular species, as you would expect technology to do, then its conclusion would be 'Too many humans'.

I also assume it wouldn't kill us all off as, like every species, we do have a function within our environment and ecosystem. We just need to manage those impacts. If not nature will, eventually, manage it itself in a very similar fashion.

Take it to off topic fellas

 

[Captain Dart]

I don't want the AI.

I'm just pointing out that if you were to look at it entirely unemotionally and independent of any bias towards any particular species, as you would expect technology to do, then its conclusion would be 'Too many humans'.

I also assume it wouldn't kill us all off as, like every species, we do have a function within our environment and ecosystem. We just need to manage those impacts. If not nature will, eventually, manage it itself in a very similar fashion.

You need sectioning for thinking like that.

 

[TomRad85]

Signing shite Bulgarians for the Blunts to destroying all humans in double quick time. This place is great.

 

[shmmeee]

I don't want the AI.

I'm just pointing out that if you were to look at it entirely unemotionally and independent of any bias towards any particular species, as you would expect technology to do, then its conclusion would be 'Too many humans'.

I also assume it wouldn't kill us all off as, like every species, we do have a function within our environment and ecosystem. We just need to manage those impacts. If not nature will, eventually, manage it itself in a very similar fashion.

No that’s your conclusion. Maybe I assume AI will agree with me and we all Star Trek off into the stars? We don’t know, that is why it’s called the singularity.

If you’re asking us to stop researching maths you’re gonna be disappointed like every other person who wished technological progress wasn’t a thing.

 

[mmttww]

when Off Topic leaks into the Championship thread...

 

[Samueljames1991]

AI is great for data analytics but you still need to give it the correct information to begin with.

Probably down to not ranking leagues correctly to gauge quality or something along them lines

 

[covcity4life]

Nothing wrong with using AI as a tool to scout players but sheff utd is a case of it clearly not being done right

Any club with sense will actively be exploring the possibilities of using AI though

 

[wingy]

There's no satisfaction for the Humans.

 

[fernandopartridge]

Nothing wrong with using AI as a tool to scout players but sheff utd is a case of it clearly not being done right

Any club with sense will actively be exploring the possibilities of using AI though

Signing a player needs a lot more subjectivity than AI will ever be capable of. It's probably useful for identifying a pool of players based on objective facts but the rest of it will always really need human intervention.

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

Signing a player needs a lot more subjectivity than AI will ever be capable of. It's probably useful for identifying a pool of players based on objective facts but the rest of it will always really need human intervention.

You would realistically need an artificial scout capable of assessing video footage alongside underlying data.

 

[covcity4life]

Signing a player needs a lot more subjectivity than AI will ever be capable of. It's probably useful for identifying a pool of players based on objective facts but the rest of it will always really need human intervention.

Agreed. Like I said nothing wrong with using it as a tool. Relying on it would be naive though

 

[clint van damme]

Signing a player needs a lot more subjectivity than AI will ever be capable of. It's probably useful for identifying a pool of players based on objective facts but the rest of it will always really need human intervention.

I said the same about data driven recruitment.
Cra,y not to use it, but crazy to rely on it solely.

 

[David O'Day]

I said the same about data driven recruitment.
Cra,y not to use it, but crazy to rely on it solely.

yeah it identify someone but you still want to do the old fashioned thing and watch them

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

Andy Irving due to join Norwich from West Ham.