“It’s totally feasible that an artificial intelligence (AI) agent could simulate more football in 24 hours than has ever been played professionally in the real world in the entire 150-year history of the game,” says Lee Mooney, who was head of data insights at City Football Group for six years.
“Think about how many games Pep Guardiola can possibly have played in, managed and watched. If you go back every generation which led to him being where he is now, through Johan Cruyff and Rinus Michels, that compound experience could potentially be simulated in just a few hours.
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“All that problem-solving knowledge would be built perfectly into a single synthetic brain.
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