Tech News: Using ChatGPT to Win the Lottery
TechStuff
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🗓️ 27 April 2023
⏱️ 24 minutes
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A man in Thailand claims that, with a little coaxing, ChatGPT helped him pick winning numbers for the lottery. Plus we hear a lot of other stories about AI, how Meta had a very good first quarter after laying off 21,000 people, and why Netflix might be worried after rolling out a password sharing crackdown initiative in Spain.
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| 0:00.0 | Deep in the mountains of Greece, the country's most-wanted man has been on the run for over a decade. |
| 0:07.0 | He's a bank robber, a kid napper, but to many Greeks, he's a hero. |
| 0:13.7 | His name is Vasili Spaliokostas, and we're on the trail of the man behind the men, a modern-day Robin Hood |
| 0:20.3 | who steals from the rich and gives to the poor. |
| 0:22.8 | I'm Miles Gray, listen to the Good Thief on the iHeartRadio app Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:30.0 | Welcome to Tech Stuff, a production from iHeartRadio. |
| 0:42.8 | Hey there and welcome to Tech Stuff. I'm your host Jonathan Strickland. |
| 0:46.5 | I'm an executive producer with iHeartRadio and how the tech are you? |
| 0:50.8 | It's time for the tech news for Thursday, April 27th, 2023. |
| 0:56.3 | Now maybe you've seen this headline. Man uses chat GPT to pick winning lottery numbers. |
| 1:04.1 | That is a heck of a claim, right? I mean that is bound to get you to click through to the article. |
| 1:09.3 | Of course, if you read the actual story, it deflates things a little bit. |
| 1:14.0 | The story happened in Thailand. The winner received the equivalent of 59 bucks. |
| 1:19.8 | It's not exactly enough to retire on. They have gone on to TikTok to talk about |
| 1:25.9 | what they claim has happened. But what about chat GPT giving winning numbers? Well, |
| 1:33.2 | first I couldn't find any verification that it actually happened. |
| 1:37.1 | But let's go ahead and assume the story is true. There's no reason for us to just think that |
| 1:42.2 | it's all made up. The lottery draw in this case was of four numbers. And apparently this man |
| 1:49.5 | used some hypothetical situations while chatting with chat GPT and also asked the bot to analyze |
| 1:56.5 | past numbers and then suggest four numbers to pick for the upcoming lottery. Now I don't have |
| 2:02.5 | all the details, but I can say that for random events, you cannot predict the future based upon |
| 2:09.9 | the past. Each event is independent from the others. If you flip a coin and it comes up heads |
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