IBM and Fox Sports lean on AI so fans can generate World Cup highlights packages

Artificial intelligence (AI) is on a trajectory to make formulaic or repetitive tasks easier, for Fox Sports this means IBM is lending its expertise to help fans cut highlights of the Fifa World Cup in Russia this summer.
In short, the collaboration will see IBM Watson Media and IBM iX technology sift through decades of Fifa highlights to learn to clip together fan-requested highlights packages. The Highlight Machine accepts requests for content from different tournaments, teams, playe