Xi'an man wins 5.08 million yuan in lottery using AI number-picking mini-program; Welfare Lottery Center reminds that AI cannot improve the odds of winning

Recently, the Shaanxi Provincial Welfare Lottery Center welcomed a special lottery player—Mr. Liu (pseudonym), who lives in Xi'an High-tech Zone. Using an AI-written number-picking mini-program, he claimed a prize of 5.08 million yuan. At the prize-claiming site, Mr. Liu recounted his lottery-buying experience. "Because I was under some debt pressure, I just thought I'd give it a try. Each time I'd spend one to three hundred yuan, and I didn't play every draw; sometimes I might not have time, so I'd just skip it." When picking numbers, Mr. Liu had a sudden idea and used AI to help write a number-picking mini-program. "I used this number-picking mini-program to have the AI select 20 numbers out of 80, and then from these twenty numbers I made corrections myself, manually adjusting again based on repeated numbers, consecutive numbers, and the distribution—that's how I picked." Rewinding to August 28, Mr. Liu used the mini-program to select 20 numbers. "I used this mini-program to select these 20 numbers, and I myself then chose these 6 groups of '11 pick ten,' spending more than one hundred and thirty yuan; it was after 8 p.m. when I went to the betting station to print the tickets. It was in there that one group of '11 pick ten' won the big prize." That evening, draw No. 2026230 was held, and nationwide 1 bet of "pick ten hit ten" was drawn, with a single-bet prize of 5 million yuan. This sole national grand prize happened, by coincidence, to land on one of Mr. Liu's 11-number pick-ten multiple tickets. That ticket matched 10 winning numbers, winning 1 bet of "pick ten hit ten" and 10 bets of "pick ten hit nine," taking home 5.08 million yuan in prize money. At 9:40 p.m., Mr. Liu used his phone to check the winning numbers, and when checking the tickets he found that one of them had matched 10 numbers. "At the time I didn't quite dare to confirm it; only the next morning when I got up did I tell my father." Mr. Liu's father didn't quite believe it at first either, and later, after confirming, he was quite excited and quite happy. Here, a reminder to the broad community of lottery players: This win was a chance event; AI-generated lottery numbers cannot improve the probability of winning, still less predict the draw results. AI number-picking is essentially just a random combination of numbers and does not have any ability to "accurately predict." Lottery draw numbers are completely random, and there is no number-picking method that can guarantee a win; do not superstitiously believe in AI tools, and do not blindly follow the trend and imitate.