Serve Too Strong

[bowt]

Just as the topic says the serve seems to be so dominant in the male game
Especially the upcoming breed of players
the phenotype of players seems to be getting taller and a movement towards massive serves
I watched ebden vs isner and literally ebden didnt get a look in
same with many of kyrgios games I cant see many of the opponents get a single look in

[don_budge]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqYo-wUtGUY

Modern Tennis. By all accounts it appears to me that it is boring. From the mind numbing backcourt duels to the bombastic serving. Before this era it was lightening quick serving and volleying. The racquets have forever changed the game and not necessarily for the better. We already begin to see the metaphoric nature of tennis compared to that of modern life...as the human nature succumbs to artificial intelligence. Willingly. Weakly. Obligingly.

[hockeyscout]

AI - Articificial Intelligence - interesting topic.

Facebook is working with AI (artiificial intelligence) right now and Facebook shut down an artificial intelligence engine after developers discovered that the AI had created its own unique language that humans can’t understand. Researchers at the Facebook AI Research Lab (FAIR) found that the chatbots had deviated from the script and were communicating in a new language developed without human input. It is as concerning as it is amazing – simultaneously a glimpse of both the awesome and horrifying potential of AI.

Artificial Intelligence is not sentient—at least not yet. It may be someday, though – or it may approach something close enough to be dangerous. Ray Kurzweil warned years ago about the technological singularity. The Oxford dictionary defines “the singularity” as, “A hypothetical moment in time when artificial intelligence and other technologies have become so advanced that humanity undergoes a dramatic and irreversible change.”

To be clear, we aren’t really talking about whether or not Alexa is eavesdropping on your conversations, or whether Siri knows too much about your calendar and location data. There is a massive difference between a voice-enabled digital assistant and an artificial intelligence. These digital assistant platforms are just glorified web search and basic voice interaction tools. The level of “intelligence” is minimal compared to a true machine learning artificial intelligence. Siri and Alexa can’t hold a candle to IBM’s Watson.

Scientists and tech luminaries, including Elon Musk, Bill Gates, and Steve Wozniak have warned that AI could lead to tragic unforeseen consequences. Eminent physicist Stephen Hawking cautioned in 2014 that AI could mean the end of the human race. “It would take off on its own and re-design itself at an ever increasing rate. Humans, who are limited by slow biological evolution, couldn't compete, and would be superseded.”

Why is this scary? Think SKYNET from Terminator, or WOPR from War Games. Our entire world is wired and connected. An artificial intelligence will eventually figure that out – and figure out how to collaborate and cooperate with other AI systems. Maybe the AI will determine that mankind is a threat, or that mankind is an inefficient waste of resources – conclusions that seems plausible from a purely logical perspective.

Machine learning and artificial intelligence have phenomenal potential to simplify, accelerate, and improve many aspects of our lives. Computers can ingest and process massive quantities of data and extract patterns and useful information at a rate exponentially faster than humans, and that potential is being explored and developed around the world.

I am not saying the sky is falling. I am not saying we need to pull the plug on all machine learning and artificial intelligence and return to a simpler, more Luddite existence. We do need to proceed with caution, though. We need to closely monitor and understand the self-perpetuating evolution of an artificial intelligence, and always maintain some means of disabling it or shutting it down. If the AI is communicating using a language that only the AI knows, we may not even be able to determine why or how it does what it does, and that might not work out well for mankind.

[klacr]

Just as the topic says the serve seems to be so dominant in the male game
Especially the upcoming breed of players
the phenotype of players seems to be getting taller and a movement towards massive serves
I watched ebden vs isner and literally ebden didnt get a look in
same with many of kyrgios games I cant see many of the opponents get a single look in

The serve should be dominant. It's the one shot you have 100% complete control of. Yet the top players, Djokovic, Nadal, Murray, Federer have near the top of the game return stats to counter.

Kyle LaCroix USPTA
Boca Raton