AN INFLUENCER and artificial intelligence whiz has created an algorithm to predict the winning lottery numbers – and bought a ticket to check his bet.
Mathematicians and other numbers pros have tried lots of strategies to hack the lottery and even scratch-off games over the years, but few have succeeded.
An AI expert and TikToker has shared the story of his attempt to use data-scraping and AI to win the New Jersey Mega Millions drawing.
He used a quick two-step process that involved running the lotto numbers through two different tech tools.
"So the first thing I needed was a database of all the previous drawings, so that I can run an analysis on it and see if there's some sort of pattern," Jacob Seeger (@jacob.seeger) told fans.
There are many data-scraping programs available online, but the influencer shared his go-to choice.
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"I used my favorite tool of all time Browserflow," he said in the video.
"Using Browserflow, I built a really quick web scraper that was gonna pull all the numbers from the previous drawings and just put it into a spreadsheet for me."
He showed viewers how the program generated "over 1,000 records of previous drawings" for him to use.
The next step was to run those numbers through an AI analysis to identify any patterns in the numbers, he explained.
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Again, the influencer shared his top choice for an analyzer but several options are available online.
"I used Peltarion. Using Peltarion, I created multiple iterations of an algorithm to see if there was some sort of pattern in the past winning numbers," he told viewers.
The analysis gave Seeger six numbers that "seemed to be the most likely to get picked in the upcoming draw."
And there was only one way to check.
"So I went out bought the ticket with the actual numbers that were predicted and here are the results," he said.
With viewers ready to see if his impressive AI process could yield any results, he shared what happened.
"Turns out it's actually f*cking impossible to predict these numbers because it's completely random," he finished the video.
With more than 100,00 followers on TikTok, the post gained thousands of likes and several comments.
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"No such thing as random, just not enough data," one person joked.
"I mean they might be more likely to win, a sample size of 1 doesn’t really show anything," another suggested.
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