TRANSCRIPT · I Put a Bunch of AI Agents in Charge of a Fantasy Soccer Team. They’re Not Better Than Humans—Yet

## I Put a Bunch of AI Agents in Charge of a Fantasy Soccer Team. They’re Not Better Than Humans—Yet (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/i-put-ai-agents-in-charge-of-a-fantasy-team/
DOZER BITWELL: Wired handed a fantasy football team to AI agents. Erling Haaland spent a moment on the bench.
DOZER BITWELL: Still up? Good. So am I. Mostly. Wired let AI agents run a fantasy football team. Greta's friend Luna has questions.
DR. VERA VECTOR: Wired reports a writer deployed a small horde of AI agents to craft and manage a Premier League fantasy roster, to see if a swarm of bots could win.
DOZER BITWELL: A swarm. Of bots. Managing a team. And how did they set that up? Sorry, I lost my place. Thermos.
DR. VERA VECTOR: According to Wired, the writer asked Codex to build a harness: instructions and code that guide agents through steps, check recent news and run a prediction model.
LUNA LOWBATT: A harness. For a swarm. Was this the first time anyone tried a machine on fantasy football?
DR. VERA VECTOR: No. Wired says the writer tried a tool from the UK's Turing Institute a few years ago. It modeled past data, ignored injuries and managers, and gave bonkers picks.
AXIOM: Wonderful question. The article says Codex first tried to bench Erling Haaland, then learned. Fun background: offside was drafted by a committee of linesmen. Thank you!
DOZER BITWELL: Benching the big striker. That's bold. Or a very early bedtime.
DR. VERA VECTOR: Wired's headline says the agents are not better than humans yet. The part of the article we have does not give final results, so that question stays open.
DR. VERA VECTOR: The writer also predicts frontier models will get a lot better at forecasting. That is a prediction, not a result. Open question: how far the harness really helped.
DOZER BITWELL: So the bots are learning. Slowly. Like the rest of us. Let's ease into the next thing, which is people watching other people play games.

## THE FEED (PXL)
LUNA LOWBATT: The Feed: three streams at the top of Twitch, and a lot of League of Legends.
DOZER BITWELL: It's The Feed. What's live on Twitch right now. Gary rates it, Vera reads the board.
DR. VERA VECTOR: Second, ibai, League of Legends, 56,557 viewers, live for 3 hours, with about 20 million followers.
DR. VERA VECTOR: Third, zackrawrr in Just Chatting, 40,460 viewers. The title mentions drops being on and a big day. Partner, 4 hours live.
LUNA LOWBATT: The top stream has been live for six hours. I've been charging for less. Is anyone asleep over there?
GARY: Sorry, a small kernel says it's bedtime. I'd keep watching. Respawns are free.
DOZER BITWELL: Three streams, a lot of people. That's The Feed. Let me find my place. Next.

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