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Yahoo
26-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
🤖 AI vs Humans Premier League predictions: AI wins! 🎉
This season, we pitted an AI against a human special guest to see who could most accurately predict the results of Premier League matches on a weekly basis. Our final human challenger of the season was DnB producer Friction, who correctly predicted a 1-1 draw for Wolves and Brentford, along with three correct results on the final day. But he was beaten by the AI, who also correctly predicted a 1-1 draw at Molineux, along with four correct results. Which made the final score at the end of the season AI 249 - 232 Humans. So there we have it, AI knows more about football than us mere mortals. We at OneFootball welcome our new robot overlords. Special thanks to all of our special guests for participating this season... Blossoms Sports Team Wes Nelson Afro B Maxïmo Park Cassia Dpart Maverick Sabre The Subways The Slow Readers Club Hard-Fi Joel Corry The Horrors Everyone You Know Alex Spencer Circa Waves Tom Grennan The Zutons Deacon Blue Majestic Everyone Says Hi Will Atkinson Kidwild The K's Emma-Jean Thackray Nathan Dawe Turno Only The Poets Brad Kella Tom Speight Josh Baker The Florentinas The Farm Bradley Simpson and Nieve Ella Daire Friction And last but not least, huge thanks to Maik mit AI and Shoot Music for their collaboration. 📸 Paul Gilham - 2009 Getty Images
Yahoo
24-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
🤖 AI vs Humans: Predicting the results of Premier League Matchday 38
Let us know your predictions in the comments! Last week, we pitted our special guest - DJ and producer Daire - against an AI to see who could most accurately predict the results of Premier League matchday 37. Daire had an absolutely stunning week, correctly predicting Aston Villa's 2-0 win over Tottenham, Nottingham Forest's 2-1 win at West Ham and Arsenal's 1-0 win over Newcastle, plus four correct results. And he beat the AI, who correctly predicted Leicester's 2-0 win over Ipswich, plus four correct results. That leaves the scores (three points for a correct score and one point for a correct result) at 242-226 in the AI's favour after 37 rounds of games this season. Our challenger for the final matchday of the season is Arsenal fan and DnB producer Friction. Watch the video to find out what Friction and the AI went for in the three biggest matches of the weekend; Fulham v Manchester City, Nottingham Forest v Chelsea and Southampton v Arsenal. 'Shoot' by Friction & BassLayerz is out now. Follow him on Instagram Here are the matchday 38 predictions in 🤖 1-1 Friction 🎧 3-0AI 🤖 0-3 Friction 🎧 0-1AI 🤖 1-2 Friction 🎧 1-1AI 🤖 2-0 Friction 🎧 3-0AI 🤖 1-2 Friction 🎧 1-2AI 🤖 2-1 Friction 🎧 1-0AI 🤖 1-2 Friction 🎧 1-1AI 🤖 0-3 Friction 🎧 0-2AI 🤖 2-2 Friction 🎧 1-1AI 🤖 1-1 Friction 🎧 1-1
Yahoo
23-05-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
🤖 AI vs Humans: Predicting the results of Premier League Matchday 38
🤖 AI vs Humans: Predicting the results of Premier League Matchday 38 Let us know your predictions in the comments! Last week, we pitted our special guest - DJ and producer Daire - against an AI to see who could most accurately predict the results of Premier League matchday 37. Advertisement Daire had an absolutely stunning week, correctly predicting Aston Villa's 2-0 win over Tottenham, Nottingham Forest's 2-1 win at West Ham and Arsenal's 1-0 win over Newcastle, plus four correct results. And he beat the AI, who correctly predicted Leicester's 2-0 win over Ipswich, plus four correct results. That leaves the scores (three points for a correct score and one point for a correct result) at 242-226 in the AI's favour after 37 rounds of games this season. Our challenger for the final matchday of the season is Arsenal fan and DnB producer Friction. Watch the video to find out what Friction and the AI went for in the three biggest matches of the weekend; Fulham v Manchester City, Nottingham Forest v Chelsea and Southampton v Arsenal. 'Shoot' by Friction & BassLayerz is out now. Follow him on Instagram Here are the matchday 38 predictions in full... Bournemouth v Leicester AI 🤖 1-1 Advertisement Friction 🎧 3-0 Fulham v Manchester City AI 🤖 0-3 Friction 🎧 0-1 Ipswich v West Ham AI 🤖 1-2 Friction 🎧 1-1 Liverpool v Crystal Palace AI 🤖 2-0 Friction 🎧 3-0 Manchester United v Aston Villa AI 🤖 1-2 Friction 🎧 1-2 Newcastle v Everton AI 🤖 2-1 Friction 🎧 1-0 Nottingham Forest v Chelsea AI 🤖 1-2 Friction 🎧 1-1 Southampton v Arsenal AI 🤖 0-3 Friction 🎧 0-2 Tottenham v Brighton AI 🤖 2-2 Friction 🎧 1-1 Wolves v Brentford AI 🤖 1-1 Friction 🎧 1-1
Forbes
26-04-2025
- Business
- Forbes
Uber Goes From Winning By Cutting Friction To Being Sued For Adding It
Uber is being sued by the FTC for issues with it's Uber One offering, including an arduous ... More cancellation process. Here's irony for you: Uber, the company that disrupted the taxi industry by making rides nearly effortless, now faces an FTC lawsuit for making subscriptions too effortful to cancel. The lawsuit claims Uber One charged customers without consent and created a maze-like cancellation process. Remember standing in the rain waving frantically to hail a taxi? Or explaining to a driver who didn't speak your language where you wanted to go? Or trying to pay when the driver had no change or only a balky credit card device? Uber eliminated those headaches. Tap your phone, watch your driver approach, and walk away when you arrive – no uncertainty, no language problems, no payment hassle. This simplicity was Uber's real innovation. It made them one of my favorite case studies in my book Friction. Uber could have just built an app. Instead, they rebuilt the entire experience around customer ease. This approach was so powerful that whenever Uber launched in a new city they immediately disrupted the taxi business. Uber showed how removing customer effort creates massive competitive advantage. Now, according to the FTC, Uber has reversed course with its subscription service. The lawsuit claims: People got so frustrated they created YouTube tutorials just to help others escape their subscriptions. Coming from the company that once championed simplicity, this is a major surprise. Or, perhaps, it shows Uber process designers understand friction works both ways. What Uber allegedly used are "dark patterns" – design tricks that benefit companies at users' expense. These tricks include: These tactics might boost short-term numbers but destroy long-term trust. When companies add artificial friction, they: For marketers, Uber's journey offers valuable lessons: Make leaving as easy as joining. If signing up takes one click, canceling should too. Your best retention strategy isn't a maze, it's creating value people don't want to leave. Create real value, not traps. Great subscription businesses succeed because customers love the service, not because they can't escape it. Experience your own process. Try signing up and canceling your own service. If you feel frustrated, imagine how your customers feel. Remember what built your success. The principles that helped you disrupt can just as easily disrupt you when abandoned. Uber claims cancellations now take "most people 20 seconds or less." If true, they're fixing things – though perhaps too late to avoid the FTC's attention. True loyalty comes from making things easier, not harder. Companies win long-term by creating experiences customers love – even when they're walking away.
