Grading using artificial intelligence

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Originally Posted by parkplace33

Great topic. Here is my take:

I don’t think we are close nor do I think the grading companies want to seriously use this technology. I liken it to the car tire industry. Car tires typically last 60000 miles. Could a car tire company make a tire that lasts over that amount? Of course they could. But they want you to have to buy new tires often and spend money.

The same applies to grading companies. How many times do we hear “I didn’t get the grade I wanted” so I cracked it out and resubmitted it. If the technology was used properly, cracking and resubmitting cards wouldn’t be possible and thus, grading companies would lose money in the long run.

Maybe in the future, but the only way to guarantee a card gets the exact same grade would be to store every card and their associated grades in some sort of huge database. The level of detail needed for each card to be able to match up the cracked card with the stored image in the database would be ridiculous. Think of it as using facial recognition software, except you have 50 Mantles who all look alike and the only differences are small changes in some of the "important" characteristics. Systems today are constantly learning, so the score you got last week might change a bit because the system updated its algorithm to account for something new it learned.