What drawing lines on football pitch taught me about future of human-AI collab
A football fan used Codex to measure a Champions League goal. The agent produced confident but wrong numbers until human intuition intervened. Known pitch dimensions and manual marking fixed the geometry. The lesson is simple: expertise should steer agents, not follow them.
Key points
- Human judgment caught the miss.
- Codex built useful code, but missed football-specific signals throughout the measurement task.
- The right answer came from context.
- Human input beat automation on goal width, homography, and image segmentation details here.
- AI works better with domain experts.
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