Human-based artificial intelligence nails 2016 Kentucky Derby Superfecta

An artificial intelligence platform has won the “holy grail” of gambling: the Kentucky Derby Superfecta.

Picking a winning from the 20-horse field at the Kentucky Derby is hard enough as it is, but things can even get a bit more hairy when bettors are asked not only to select the winner but also the second, third and fourth horse to finish the Derby in exact order. In fact, not even the experts polled by SBNation were able to pin the top four winners.

But there’s one entity—an artificial intelligence, natch—was able to get it right.

UNU, a human-based AI, accurately predicted the first, second, third and fourth horses in the Derby, prompting its inventor Louis Rosenberg and his team to win $10,842 from a $20 bet (see the official ticket here).