Can A Robot Really Help You Win The Lottery?

Robots try to dress a lottery winner in this funny lotto ad.

Can a robot - with it's super powers and fantastic mathematical abilities - help you win the lottery?

Robots can weld and assemble a car. They can move around and avoid shapes on a flat floor. Honda's Asimo can climb stairs. Some of them can even recognize you and give a metallic greeting.

But robots can't do these things:

Win chess games (or even GO) 100% of the time.
Perform simple functions like opening a strange door, walk into a room and turn your computer on.
Or dress you, like the robots in the UK National Lottery ad above.
Create astounding works of art.
Perform surgery without assistance.
Help you win lotto.

In fact, what you and I have read in science fiction about the future is no more reality than it was 50 years ago. Just like the personal jet pack and invisibility cloaks.

Take an example... I attended the Wired Magazine's NextFest event in Chicago a few years back, and I saw many robots on show. Sadly not one of them could do anything better than walk a few steps, crudely.

Yet millions of dollars and years of experience from vastly intelligent people have been put into these projects.

And we've got nothing better than a cute, shiny moving box that sometimes talks.

Now, I believe the current thinking is that eventually all our current technology will start to snowball, and within a few years robots will be doing astounding things.

Well, I have to ask you, what about the internet? It's a kind of robot. But with very few exceptions, people are doing the same things on the net as they were 15 years ago when I first started. In fact, I'm doing very much the same now as I was a decade ago, and succeeding where most people fail.

The pace of change has been tortise-like. Everything we're doing now is just an extension of the simple magnets, resistors and wires that I was experimenting with 50 years ago. Just a little bit more advanced.

Of course I'm generalizing... that have been many advances - but none dramatic like the 21st century flying cars and teleportation systems imagined a few decades ago.

And this brings me to lotto. With all the computing power in the world, no-one yet - except for me - has come up with a workable system that even approaches getting a winning system working.

This is no idle boast... I've yet to see any system work as effectively as the Silver Lotto System with up to 98% success rate.