Muhammad Ali vs. Rocky Marciano: AI’s debut in sports… in 1969
It is a journalistic tradition to make lists of 'The best in history'. A tradition, if you like, puerile because the evidence is that it is impossible to compare eras or circumstances. It would require analyzing an infinite number of variables and always, always, one more will appear. For example, in tennis we can analyze to the limit Nadal, Djokovic and Laver: their successes, their style, the incidence of materials in their game... but then we would also have to analyze that of their rivals: Would it have been the same that Rod Laver had as a rival a Roy Emerson to have a Pete Sampras...? It's dizzying. The useful thing about these lists is that they help to preserve the memory of the great names of all time.However, there was once a person who tried to find out scientifically, […]
