Sorry, Luiz "Luli" Fernando Steffen Pereira. You won't be back.
The World Surf League’s 2025 Championship Tour season swings its gates wide in but three days though a clinical depression hangs heavy. The Pipeline Pro forecast is charitably bleak. Favorite professionals, like John John Florence and Stephanie Gilmore, have chosen to hang up the singlet. Others, like Gabriel Medina and Crosby Colapinto, out due injury. And the judges, from Luiz “Luli” Fernando Steffen Pereira on down, are busily eyeing unemployment lines after X-Games unveiled AI judging for the weekend’s snowboard halfpipe competition.
While the robot’s scores will not impact this year’s competition, the soft roll of this “experiment” likely spells the end of human score tabulations.
Jeremy Bloom, CEO of X Games, told USA Today, “Maybe this could be a tool that sits next to judges, so you have four judges and then this (as an actual) judge. Or it could be a piece of technology that judges could interact with, just to make sure they saw the trick appropriately. What the viewer will see, I think, is a glimpse into the future, a real technological glimpse into the future of where this can go.”
Yeah.
We have all seen the future and it looks like this.
Sorry, Luiz “Luli” Fernando Steffen Pereira. You won’t be back.
Aspen is over run with drug addled X Games participants and fans until later today. Fortunately those who don’t end up in the drunk tank will leave tonight or tomorrow so the more familiar jet trash can have Aspen back to themselves.
“This is the end. No safety or surprise, the end. I’ll never look into your eyes again”…..the end…..
melania? “eat me …” https://youtu.be/RNE0CKK71TI?si=JAuI9UYbc-2qeA0N
oh contrare, the pressure is on to increase my bust size. mine are real and am fine with ’em~
Surely AI will know if a surfer has finished on the bricks and has hit the ski to reset yeh? Oh hold, on I’m confusing judging with commentary. Play on.
beam me up Otto~
give me a shovel/
the rural life…
life in a fire look-out station sucks…
trouble w/ the syrians sellin shwarma…
don’t want the chicken…
I want the lamb o’ god~
got pita…
175 skis…
adidas…
It’s like you read my fucken mind, maaaaaan!
feed back. in roman font and properly spaced with a minimum of three complete sentences. caucasion or white russian to drink? o’er?
does your wife hate me…yet?
She’s a lover, not a biter
is JJ in the Pipe event?
Surfival says he’s out, fwiw
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AI couldn’t do any worse (unless it’s designed in brazil)
I actually caught a few waves this morning and almost did some complete turns using an old ‘fun-shape’ with a big-ass tail and lots of width, so I’ve taken the obvious logical step and entered a local Australia Day boardriders comp tomorrow to be the comedy element in the over-50’s section.
Never, ever, EVER been in surfy competitive situation in my life. I reckon even paddling out for the heat is a personal win for me.
Pushin’ envelopes!
Next stop: the CT.
I’m a sure winner if I can just hack into the new computer judges.
Upvote for genuinely surfing related comment. 👍
Breaking new ground
I’m keen on the slab tour if you are? It’ll be like the old days on the Q’y. LMB etc…
post ur stretching ritual for us that are deaf&dumb&mute/
I love this. And you!
Xox
Update: I succeeded in not getting a zero point heat score, and also was definitely the laughing stock of the event. Win-Win.
Need an article with pics. Get on it bro!
Hard core AI fans are so stoked right now.
AI will accurately measure a 540 (or lack thereof). So no more 540’s.
510’s
ocean sea levels measurements and fish finder apps?
The WSL can have the AI judge the heats in advance and pick a winner without actually running any heats.
An AI judge will simply be an old Mac computer from 2003 that Medina and the entire Brazzo fandom can go sling threats at after a bad heat score.
macPaint before Lotus123…high vibes~
WSL Announcement
“Our AI has the best All-Go-Rhythm!”
– I apologize in advance
So bad its good.
When will AI replace Joe Turpel?
Evidence suggests that already happened years ago.
Not soon enough.
Artificial tools you say
Is that off the footage, you reckon? Or, like some Eye of Sauron setup?
RIP Crawdaddy “Malibu has a pier and it’s got many, many, many different pilings in it that hold the pier up,” said Jean Pierre “Peli” Pereat, a Malibu-based therapist who uses surfing to help patients. “And Randy was one of those pilings.”
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At least we won’t be made obsolete:
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oui. or one can just paraphrase the hosts of The View, CNN, MSNBC, Stephan A. Smith, et al…and for you aussies, didn’t your ambassador propagate the Trump emissary by stuffing $5k in his suitcase? Greece, Ceylon or some remote island country only to be busted back in the US? my mammaries are being erased by AI?
it’ s no wonder AI is getting $500 billion, it needs a payoff so it can take sides. 🙂
$500B in infrastructure improvement. bummer for the working class. in retirement, I’m here for future…hope I die before I get old. teenage wasteland…
Too late. Touch of Grey.
post 2 wooden nickles and you’ll get Marshall Tucker Band…free pandora~
https://uploads.disquscdn.c… You know, I think im coming around to this AI judging thing