I have to disagree on all points made and here’s why
Firstly, racing against AI won’t raise their profile. Take Jarno for example. Racing AI won’t raise his profile, racing against real F1 drivers would. Secondly, it wont keep them sharp. AI behave differently to humans and drive more robotic and predictable. AI in Grand Prix 4 was better and that game was out more than 20 years ago. Thirdly, racing against 110 AI isn’t more reliable than the human opponents they’ll take seriously. No eSport player worth their salt will practice their skills against randoms or AI and call it good practice. They’ll personally know who they practice against and they’ll all be very competent players. To support this, I’ll switch sports and please bear with me on this. It’s been a few years since I played proper darts having dart it is but I reached a very high level where I started to average over 100 at proper tournaments and was told to go to PDC Q School to get a Pro Tour Card, I even played against Phil Taylor. I would never practice using an app against AI for the same reason why eSports drivers shouldn’t practice against AI. Robotic and very poor decision making. AI might put up good laps by themselves in racing like putting up 100s, 140s and 180s in darts but then in racing, AI get bullied too easy, don’t properly defend, brake too early and hand you positions just like AI in darts make terrible decisions while on scores like 303, 306, 343 etc. My point is, regardless of the sport or even eSport, any top competitor worth their salt should be practicing against similar skilled human opponents. Jarno will know this so won’t bother seriously practicing in open lobbies or against AI that behave differently and make terrible decisions routinely.
Agree to disagree I think
