MAROKO133 Breaking ai: Woman Asks ChatGPT for Powerball Numbers, Wins $150,000 Edisi Jam 0

📌 MAROKO133 Hot ai: Woman Asks ChatGPT for Powerball Numbers, Wins $150,000 Terbar

A Virginia woman won big at the Powerball lottery — using numbers picked by OpenAI’s ChatGPT, according to The New York Post, in a story that’s only possible in the 21st Century.

 “I’m like, ChatGPT, talk to me… Do you have numbers for me?” said Carrie Edwards, remembering how she requested the AI bot for help, during a press conference last week, as reported by the NY Post.

A few days later, the widow from Virginia got a phone notification that she won the Powerball drawing earlier this month.

Because she got the same four of the five numbers and the Powerball number, she got a $150,000 check that she plans to donate the winnings to several nonprofits: the Navy-Marine Corps Relief Society, Shalom Farms — a nonprofit food organization — and the Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration, which funds research on the form of dementia that killed her husband last year.

“As soon as that divine windfall happened and came down upon my shoulders, I knew exactly what I needed to do with it,” she said at the press conference. “And I knew I needed to give it all away, because I’ve been so blessed, and I want this to be an example of how other people, when they’re blessed, can bless other people.”

To be clear, ChatGPT obviously can’t predict winning lottery numbers. Instead, Edwards effectively used it as a random number generator, and then got lucky.

In our AI age, though, this isn’t the first time somebody’s claimed they used an AI bot to win the lotto. Back in 2023, a Thai man said he used ChatGPT to successfully guess numbers for a local sweepstakes, though only for a piddling sum of $59. 

And earlier this year, three university math students in Italy developed an algorithm that they claimed netted them more than $50,000 from a local drawing by spending just $350 on numbers that their algorithm said were overrepresented among winners; whether they actually beat the system like card counters at a game of blackjack is unclear, although hobbyists have occasionally found flukes in state lottery systems.

Reality check, though: you’re very unlikely to beat the odds using AI, even though the Apple store is already lousy with apps claiming to do exactly that.

Just remember that at the end of the day, lotteries and casinos exist for one reason — and the house always wins.

More on AI and gambling: Gannett Is Using AI to Pump Brainrot Gambling Content Into Newspapers Across the Country

The post Woman Asks ChatGPT for Powerball Numbers, Wins $150,000 appeared first on Futurism.

🔗 Sumber: futurism.com

📌 MAROKO133 Update ai: Innovative catalyst transforms plastic trash into fuel with

A University of Delaware-led team has developed a new catalyst that converts plastic waste into liquid fuels faster and more efficiently than existing methods, offering a potential solution to growing plastic pollution.

The work points toward more energy-efficient methods for plastic upcycling, reducing pollution while creating sustainable fuels.

“Instead of letting plastics pile up as waste, upcycling treats them like solid fuels that can be transformed into useful liquid fuels and chemicals, offering a faster, more efficient and environmentally friendly solution,” said senior author Dongxia Liu, the Robert K. Grasseli Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at UD’s College of Engineering.

Hydrogenolysis, one promising upcycling approach, uses hydrogen gas and a catalyst to break down polymers in plastics into liquid fuels for transportation and industry.

Conventional catalysts, however, struggle to handle bulky polymer molecules, limiting their efficiency.

Mesoporous MXenes unlock polymers

To overcome this, the researchers turned to MXenes (pronounced max-eens), a nanomaterial formed of stacked two-dimensional layers.

“MXenes form two-dimensional layers, like the pages of a book. These stacked layers in the closed book make it difficult for molten plastic to move through easily, limiting contact with the catalyst,” explained first author Ali Kamali, a doctoral candidate in chemical and biomolecular engineering.

The team created mesoporous MXenes by inserting silica pillars between the layers, opening up the space and allowing polymers to flow more easily.

They loaded the mesoporous MXenes with ruthenium and tested the catalyst with low-density polyethylene (LDPE), a plastic commonly used in shopping bags and films.

In a small pressurized reactor, LDPE was combined with the catalyst and hydrogen gas, then heated into a thick syrup. The catalyst nearly doubled reaction rates compared with previous LDPE hydrogenolysis methods.

It also showed high selectivity, producing liquid fuels efficiently while minimizing byproducts such as methane. Liu credited this to the stabilization of ruthenium nanoparticles within the MXene layers.

“We were able to produce a material that not only speeds the conversion but also improves the quality of the fuel products. This advance highlights the potential of nanostructured mesoporous catalysts to enhance plastic upcycling,” Liu said.

Turning waste into fuel

Looking forward, the UD team plans to refine the catalyst further and develop a library of MXene-based catalysts for different plastic types.

They aim to collaborate with industry partners to turn plastic waste into a resource, producing fuels and chemicals that benefit both the environment and local economies.

Other coauthors from UD’s Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering include postdoctoral researcher Song Luo’s graduate students.

The findings from the study have been published in the journal Chem Catalysis.

🔗 Sumber: interestingengineering.com