BEIJING, March 22, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- On March 9, 2018 in Beijing China's sports artificial intelligence company Cubee Technology held AIBALL product launch conference and invited all football fans to watch the FIFA World Cup with them. AIBALL is a football chatbot based on knowledge graph, and powered by state-of-art natural language processing capabilities with deep learning.
AIBALL promises a totally new football watching experience and ushers in a new era of AI-driven fan interaction. AIBALL, an online app available for iOS and Android, can answer varied football-related questions ranging from explaining the rules of the game to new fans to detailed statistics and anecdotes on all players in the World Cup, and is the perfect game-watching companion for football fans.
On the conference, Cubee's founder and CEO Chen Hao shared with the audience that the development of China's AI is also encouraged by the government. The AI industry is expected to grow rapidly in 2018. In a digitized world, satisfying individual users' personalized requirements has become the goal of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, and the sports industry is also impacted by this.
Wu Xuening, Co-founder of Cubee Technology and also a guest professor in Shanghai Fudan university, also gave a speech about "The future has come." He pointed out the latest trends in applications of AI, such as voice interaction, natural language processing, and knowledge graph - which are all vital for chatting robots like AIBALL.
Xu Wenjun, the VP of operations of Cubee, took the World Cup as an example to introduce the outstanding features of AIBALL and what can be expected if fans use AIBALL while watching the World Cup this summer - a brand new experience, with an interactive guide that gives key information to new and experienced fans alike.
Yu Lingxiao, the president of Super Sports, is a leading figure in the Chinese sports industry. He is also very optimistic about the future of the AI football chatbot. Leading technology firms like Xiaomi and Dingdong have already signed up to cooperate with AIBALL and their representatives also attended the AIBALL launch conference.
Finally, Ke Han, a famous football commentator, expressed his view that "AI technology will bring an innovation to traditional methods of football information distribution". He will feature on AIBALL as a football analyst.
The world's first AI-based chatbot launched was born
AIBALL's interactive approach will appeal sports fans but it is also based on Cubee's special advanced technology. At present, most chatbots are mechanical in function. They can simulate human conversation on a very limited range of topics and match questions to a memorized answers. AIBALL goes further as it can learn about users' behavior and use logic and keep learning to find the sort of information users really want, and most importantly, it is built on football industry knowledge graph, which enables the information can be represented in a computer readable way with graphs, hence it can make reasoning possible, which is impossible for most other open domain chatbots. Open domain chatbots' answers generally can't cover this range and quality of answer. When fans are watching a live football game, AIBALL will be their intelligent assistant, providing comment like a real human being, responding well to any questions, and scouring the web to search for the most relevant information. AIBALL can meet all users' needs during the game - and fast.
The job of football commentator or pundit is becoming more difficult in recent years as fans' demands become more sophisticated. Traditional "one-to-many" modes of communication like TV commentary hasn't changed much over the last few decades, but its days are numbered. It will eventually be replaced by something can meet the personal requirements of each fan, and AIBALL is the first step down to this path. Fans can now get the information they want directly, in an easily understood format, and they don't need to search online by their own anymore.
AIBALL has access to detailed player information, match data, the latest social media news, flashbacks to historical games and events, and other forms of football match related contents to users in the form of audio, images, articles, videos, animations, charts and so on.
The backstage database of AIBALL has amazing computing power with global structured and unstructured football information, including the lineups and records of matches over the years. Additionally, AIBALL can constantly update and expand its big data library by scanning the web and adding more information through an automated process. User behavior is also recorded, so each time when users log in on AIBALL, personalized content becomes more accurate, satisfying users' habits and requirements, based on users' favorite team or players, or the game information users' are interested in.
About Cubee Technology
Cubee Technology, founded in 2012, is a Chinese sports artificial intelligence company. Services provided by Cubee include data information services ,event analysis services, professional sports services, sports media services, business decision services, education and scientific research services, real-time data games, sports lottery and so on. At present, it reaches 46 million users and have partnership with many leading technology company in China, such as Alibaba, Tencent, Baidu, Sina, Sohu, Ssports, PPTV, Ti'ao Dongli, Whaley Technology as well as dozens of other internet and sports partners.
After the conference, Cubee's CEO Chen Hao also mentioned the company is executing a global expansion strategy this year. Cubee will set up a branch company in Singapore and Malaysia, as well as a football AI R&D Center. Now Cubee is recruiting AI engineer and football content operation who can speak Chinese and English fluently, and excellent pay and conditions are provided for sure.
AIBALL football chatting robot is a multiple application platform invented by Cubee Technology in the fields of internet sports, which is available for iOS and android system. AIBALL was launched as the only copyrighted official app for Premier League of Super Sports at the end of 2017. AI chatting robot named Xiao Mei has been official online in JD-Dingdong intelligent speaker, Xiaomi-Xiaoai intelligent speaker, Xiaomi Brain, and it will dock with TmallGenie, Suning intelligent speaker. Based on AIBALL, more and more products and services are in development. As a leading sports artificial intelligence enterprise, Cubee Technology launched the "multiple application" strategy of data sports at the same time. Cubee will concentrate on the sports data application, product research and development, and start a new era of the digital sports industry in the future.
