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Fred Onyango

Virginia woman wins $150K after asking ChatGPT for lottery numbers, then decides she doesn’t want the money

The debate about what and how we should implement generative AI still wears on in culture. Nobody can quite see eye to eye, with each side presenting great arguments for and against the new technology. But Carrie Edwards from Virginia just might have made the best argument for ChatGPT yet.

The New York Post reports that Edwards rarely plays the lottery. But one day — maybe it was boredom, maybe she just felt lucky — she decided to try. Edwards ended up getting the first four of five numbers including the Powerball by asking ChatGPT to pick them for her. “I’m like, ChatGPT, talk to me… Do you have numbers for me?” she shared during a press conference. Furthermore, she had added an extra dollar to her lottery ticket, so she got $150,000 instead of the usual $50,000 payout.

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