China’s lottery players bet on AI chatbots to give winning numbers, but none are millionaires yet
- Chinese social media users share their experiences using generative AI to pick lottery numbers
- The country is estimated to have nearly 200 million regular buyers of sports and welfare lottery tickets
In one post that went viral on the Instagram-like platform Xiaohongshu, user Gu Xiangnan from eastern Anhui province shared her experience buying lottery tickets using numbers generated by Google’s Gemini-Pro.
She first fed the chatbot with two years’ worth of historical data from Super Lotto, one of the most popular of its kind in China that asks players to select five numbers from a set of 35 balls and two bonus numbers from another set of 12 balls.
Among the five combinations picked by Gemini, two of them each contained two winning numbers, while another two each had one correct bonus number. Gu won no money.
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Gu also said she previously spent 20 yuan (US$2.8) betting on Union Lotto, another popular lottery in China, using the same approach, winning 5 yuan in total.
“Although it was just for fun, there is something worth looking into,” she said.