The 21st Show

How AI can play a role in NCAA basketball tournament brackets

 

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The annual NCAA Division 1 Men’s and Women’s Basketball tournament also known as March Madness is back and that means everyone is working hard to build the perfect bracket. But with a near-infinite of possibilities, can AI beat the odds and make a better bracket than humans? A University of Illinois computer science professor, who created the website BracketOdds, shares his thoughts.


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Sheldon Jacobson 
Founder Professor of Computer Science, Grainger College of Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign