Woman asks ChatGPT to pick Powerball numbers — and wins huge prize. ‘Disbelief’
A Michigan woman used the help of artificial intelligence to win a huge Powerball prize .
Tammy Carvey, 45, bought a Powerball ticket online for the Sept. 6 drawing, according to an Oct. 16 news release from the Michigan Lottery.
“I only play Powerball when the jackpot gets up there and the jackpot was over $1 billion so I bought a ticket,” Carvey told lottery officials. “I asked ChatGPT for a set of Powerball numbers and those are the numbers I played on my ticket.”
Carvey checked the winning numbers and saw she matched four numbers plus the Powerball.
“Google told me it was a $50,000 prize, so that’s what I thought I’d won. It wasn’t until I logged into my Michigan Lottery account that I realized I added the Power Play to my ticket and actually won $100,000! My husband and I were in total disbelief,” she told lottery officials.
Carvey said she plans on paying off her Wyandotte home and saving the rest.
Wyandotte is about a 15-mile drive southwest from downtown Detroit.
What to know about Powerball
To score the jackpot in the Powerball, a player must match all five white balls and the red Powerball.
The odds of scoring the jackpot prize are 1 in 292,201,338.
Tickets can be bought on the day of the drawing, but sales times and price vary by state.
Drawings are broadcast Saturdays, Mondays and Wednesdays at 10:59 p.m. ET and can be streamed online.
Powerball is played in 45 states, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
