For AI tool Gemini's first AFL draft, you'd have to say it did a pretty good job.
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It predicted eight of the players taken in the top 10 on Wednesday night, while getting six of them right in terms of which clubs they ended up at.
AI also predicted the top three exactly right, with Willem Duursma going to the West Coast Eagles with pick one, Gold Coast claiming Zeke Uwland at No.2 with an academy bid, and Harry Dean going to Carlton under the father-son rule.
It nailed Cooper Duff-Tytler ending up at West Coast - although AI predicted him going two spots lower than being the fourth name actually called out on the night.
Dylan Patterson (Suns) and Daniel Annable (Brisbane) both went as academy picks as predicted, with the top six near enough to perfect marks for AI.
The bottom four of the top 10 is where it started to struggle, with Gemini interestingly ignoring its own insight surrounding Richmond's trip to Mildura to visit Sam Cumming - something the Tigers did a similar thing with Sam Lalor last year before picking him.
Richmond did take Cumming at No.7, with AI instead tipping they'd take Sullivan Robey instead.
Robey ended up at Essendon with pick nine.
Samuel Grlj (No.8) to the Tigers and Jacob Farrow (No.10) to the Bombers were the two names it missed, with its tips of Xavier Taylor (No.11) and Dyson Sharp (No.13) not going in the top 10.
It did accurately predict Sharp ending up with the Bombers, while Taylor is off to Melbourne.
We got AI to predict the AFL draft top 10. How did it do?
If AI can do the NRL draw, then surely it can predict the AFL draft top 10?
So The Canberra Times decided to put Gemini to the test to see whether it could trawl through all the information that's out there to come up with the first 10 names out of the draft hat.
It's predicting the West Coast Eagles to play "kingmaker" and force the hand of a bunch of their rivals who have some handy father-son and academy prospects.
Harry Dean (Carlton father-son), Zeke Uwland (Gold Coast academy), Daniel Annable (Brisbane academy) and Dylan Patterson (Gold Coast academy) could all be used to force their respective clubs to burn draft picks to land them.
It'd make for an interesting draft if the Eagles can bring a bit of mongrel to the table on Wednesday night.
West Coast have picks one and two, Richmond three and four, Essendon five and six, Melbourne have seven and eight, while Carlton and Hawthorn round out the top 10 - although it's highly unlikely the Demons, Blues or Hawks will get a look in that early.
