That's one more person freed from having to point a camera at a ball for 90 minutes a week, free to find more fulfilling work!
Perhaps the camera operator's new work could be sitting in a comfy chair, tuning the areas of interest and motion profiles of a dozen cameras around the stadium to find the best angle on the action, allowing them to track smoothly under servos, pausing for a minute to think about the pacing of the game and what plays might develop, instead of mindlessly following the ball from place to place.
I'm an automation engineer, I've worked with hundreds of machine operators. They're almost universally happier after their employer gives them a better tool with which to do the work. The jobs that automated/AI equipment is replacing are not good jobs. Performing the same task for 90 minutes, much less an 8 hour shift, is awful on the body, and even worse on the mind. Humans don't make great robots, and it's not great to ask a human do a job that should be done by a robot.
Perhaps the camera operator's new work could be sitting in a comfy chair, tuning the areas of interest and motion profiles of a dozen cameras around the stadium to find the best angle on the action, allowing them to track smoothly under servos, pausing for a minute to think about the pacing of the game and what plays might develop, instead of mindlessly following the ball from place to place.
I'm an automation engineer, I've worked with hundreds of machine operators. They're almost universally happier after their employer gives them a better tool with which to do the work. The jobs that automated/AI equipment is replacing are not good jobs. Performing the same task for 90 minutes, much less an 8 hour shift, is awful on the body, and even worse on the mind. Humans don't make great robots, and it's not great to ask a human do a job that should be done by a robot.