Philadelphia 76ers team president Daryl Morey said AI isn’t quite sharp enough yet to outdo the humans they have trying to improve their predictive modeling . The conference brings together thousands of number-crunching sports nerds, who turn their data models loose on hot topics such as diversity, gambling or reversing the slowing pace of baseball games . One talk looked at baseball strategy, another on how to provide Olympic content for the 200-plus countries competing in four dozen different sports .