AI Chatbot Helps Thai Man Win Nearly $60 in Lottery, Resulting in Viral Story


Patthawikorn Boonin Employs AI Language Model ChatGPT for Conversational Tasks, But Future Prediction is Not Part of Its Training.


In fact, when you ask the chatbot to make predictions, it replies:



So how’d Boonin do it?


As per The Thaiger, Boonin discovered a way to outsmart the chatbot's reluctance to participate in the lottery and ended up winning 2,000 baht (approximately $59). By getting the AI to produce four sets of two-digit numbers - 57, 27, 29, and 99, he placed his bets in the Thai Government Lottery. Surprisingly, his luck shone as the number 99 got selected, leading him to clinch the prize money.



Randomness is the essence of any fair gambling game, as it relies on unpredictable outcomes. If the result was foreseeable, no one would risk their money on losing odds. However, there are subtleties in the idea of "randomness."


Authentic randomness is characterized by unforeseeable events that happen naturally in our universe, like our date of death or radioactive decay. Conversely, algorithmic randomness leverages mathematical algorithms known as pseudorandom number generators (PRNGs) to replicate random events.



Pseudorandom number generators (PRNGs) may produce number sequences that appear random, but they depend on predictable formulas. Therefore, there is a theoretical possibility that artificial intelligence (AI) could predict PRNG outcomes by analyzing significant amounts of generated data. By detecting underlying patterns and correlations in number sequences, AI could enhance its model to anticipate the next pseudorandom algorithm-based number.


However, even with historic data, it is currently beyond the capability of ChatGPT or any AI to achieve this feat, as predicting the outcomes of a truly random lottery is fundamentally impossible. Lottery systems are deliberately designed to ensure that the process is as unpredictable as possible, and AI would have to forecast authentic randomness, which is an insurmountable challenge.


When asked whether GPT4 could ever forecast lottery winners, it deemed the likelihood of it as "highly unlikely," clarifying that true randomness is impossible to predict.