He was not just a spectator though, he had to send back live data to the gambling syndicate he worked for, as each player scored a point.
Gamblers keen to get an edge over their rivals, have taken to employing "courtsiders", who send back live data to syndicates and betting companies while a game is under way.
At Facebook, their Director of A.I., Yann LeCun, a Deep Learning pioneer, has access to more living data relating to human thought, language and behaviour than anyone else.
It uses a number of visual elements that take RSS/xml feeds directly from the live data to show members how their efforts are adding up.
It showcased an app created by a customized App Inventor which sent live data to iSense (www.isenseproject.org) which is an online collaborative data visualization system.
"We created live data to show which gas stations are opened or closed, what areas have electricity, etc.
Therefore, a logical future work would be to implement the framework within a working business environment that is streaming live data to the central repository.
And we will then, as we roll it out, we will be using live data and it will only be our clinical staff who are accessing that live data to treat the patients when we do it.
In practical terms that means the ability to read and write-back live data to the company's systems, both ERP and CRM.
"We are focusing on leveraging live data to allow us to create better insights, and we are looking at other channels as well," he said.
It is entirely fine that Google wanted to use live data to train their decision tree processes; but that process is not direct care.
