Artificial Intelligence (AI), specifically ChatGPT, has starred in a curious story in Michigan (United States) where a woman has become a millionaire by winning more than 100,000 dollars (85,000 euros) thanks to the Lottery. She and her husband decided to ask ChatGPT the winning combination of the Powerball drawing and when the balls came out they found that he had matched 4 of the five numbers and also the one with the red ball.
As explained Le Parisianthe woman wanted to try her luck in the Powerball Lottery draw that accumulated a jackpot of one billion dollars. “I only like to play when the price is very high, so I decided to buy a ticket,” he explained when he went to buy it at the Administration.
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Before throwing in the usual numbers, he decided ask the Artificial Intelligence tool to generate a new series. “I asked him to be a perfect match for Powerball and when he gave them to me, they were the ones I put on the ticket.”
On this occasion, ChatGPT got it right and on September 6 the woman became a millionaire by winning 100,000 dollars (85,000 euros) with four of the five balls and the red one that corresponded to an additional prize of 50,000 dollars (42,000 euros).
Then, he selected the Power Play option, for which you have to pay an extra dollar and thanks to which he managed to deposit an amount of thousands of euros.
“I checked Google but it said the prize was lower”
The new millionaire did not believe that they had won the most important prize in one of the best-known raffles in the United States, “I checked the results and realized that I had four plus the Powerball, so I knew that something had to have taken me away.” So he decided to check it on Google, “it told me it was $50,000 but when I logged into my account I remembered that the Power Play option was activated… and then I knew I had won double.”
The woman did not want to give her name, but said that “neither my husband nor I could believe it.” He has stated that with that money they will finish paying the mortgage on their house and strengthen the domestic economy. “We can finally breathe a little.”
A 1 billion dollar jackpot that doubled the number of players
This Powerball draw is one of the largest in the United States, with thousands of people playing when it is active. In this sense, a jackpot greater than 1,000 million dollars had been reached, so according to the Lottery administration, “participation had multiplied.”
Now, the debate is opening again on the use of Artificial Intelligence, which has already become common in areas such as education and even, personal relationships.