As a test, I asked the three most visible AI chatbots to predict the results of next week’s English Premier League football matches. ,

Two of them did an awful job and we didn’t need to wait for the games to find out just how awful.

Gemini Google’s Gemini incorrectly tells me that the Premier League season hasn’t started yet. We just had week five and week six is coming up.

Chat-GPT Chat GPT tells me the job is difficult, fair enough, but then goes on to illustrate that it doesn’t have a clue. It mentions for example that Chelsea is inconsistent and could draw or narrowly win against teams like West Ham. This is four days after Chelsea thrashed West Ham 0-3 away from home.

Co-pilot Microsoft’s Co-pilot did the best job. It appears to ‘understand’ the question, although ‘understand’ is the wrong word to use when talking about AI.

Co-pilot then confidently gave me plausible win-probability odds for five of the next round of games. It showed images of the club badges for the predicted winning teams.

Of course this was a trivial exercise, but is a useful reminder that these chatbots should not be taken too seriously.