FIFA, football’s governing body, is experimenting with artificial intelligence in hope of making better offside calls with the Video Assistant Referee (VAR) system. From a report: FIFA tested the new system during last year’s Club World Cup, but kept it separate from on-ground refereeing decisions, Forbes reported this week. Currently, on-ground referees use VARs to check whether a player involved in a goal was offside. Sometimes, when the call is too close, VARs need to manually mark the offside line and check if a player’s limb is crossing it. This can prove very controversial when there are close calls. The new technology uses AI to determine the offside line when the ball was released, and also tracks limbs of players involved in the call. It will also have a limb tracking system that will consider 15-20 points on each player.

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