I Used ChatGPT and Won In The Lottery. I’m Not Kidding.
This should feel illegal.
Yes, let's see who won the money! No, he's not an elf or a leprechaun or a magical unicorn.
Here's a little help from strangers they trust: AI!
Yes, good read. In today's world where everyone uses ChatGPT to make money, it's only a matter of time before someone uses artificial intelligence to beat the odds and win big in the lottery.
Is there anything this technology can't do? So he beat us at chess, drove our car and now he's made us very rich! (Apart from the "fake learning" that everyone is doing now)
So, using artificial intelligence to win the lottery? It's like going to a knife fight with a tank. While we are trying to control the pieces, you are playing 4D chess.
To be clear, even if I do, I won't be making much money. (at least for now).
Here's the dealio
We have a traditional lottery type game in Greece where you choose 5 numbers from 1-45 and 1 number from 1-20.
Normally, if you get all 6 numbers right, you win the jackpot.
Every few months there is a big Bonus.
Money keeps piling up because no one has won the lottery for a while.
The stakes are high this time! The winner will receive $10,000,000
life-changing coins!
I have to try!
To be honest, I'm not a big fan of gambling but I give it a shot once in a while.
Plus, I do what everyone else does every time I try. I sat on the couch and thought about how to spend the money.
I guess this time.
I will use ChatGPT to give me some random numbers.
So first let me explain the categories of winning
Whoever guesses all 5+1 numbers correctly gets the full prize, whoever guesses all 5 numbers correctly gets $100,000, then the person who guesses the 4+1 numbers correctly wins $2,500, so $3 is $2, 2+1 2$, 1+1 2$
Back to our story. I opened ChatGPT, asked it to randomly generate 1 random number between 1-45 and 1-20 for the lottery game and got the result.
I did it 5 times to get 5 different numbers because the regular ticket gives you 5 chances to play.
I paid and waited a long time.
Fast forward to 3 days, I open my web browser and I see the live results. What happened?
got my 3+1 numbers right too!
The other 2 came out of 1 issue!
Yes, I won $50. But the other two numbers are different from one.
This makes me think. Maybe something happened here.
Parts of the code that the AI algorithm understands but I don't.
Maybe I'll get it right with a few tweaks.
Since then I've been playing for a week to try things out. ChatGPT always gives me results with at least 2 correct numbers and some of the remaining numbers differ one by one.
This makes me think.
This could be the start of something new. Maybe with a little tweaking or more analysis I'll finally be able to understand how ChatGPT approaches the numbers.