He lost $10,000 betting after the AI rewrote his prediction code and invented odds

Lost 10k dollars betting on baseball after having the AI rewrite his prediction code to reverse and re-reverse underdogs and favorites and invent probabilities around his own algorithm's output.

$10,000at stake

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How it works

He has the AI rewrite his prediction code
It reverses and re-reverses underdogs and favourites and invents probabilities
He loses 10,000 dollars betting on baseball

Why it’s worth knowing

Invented probabilities are the most expensive kind.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on news.ycombinator.com. See the original ↗

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