For the first time this NFL season, Microsoft Copilot’s Week 5 run of picks came up short — and USA TODAY’s experiment with the AI chatbot now turns a brighter spotlight on what happens when large language models chase live, fast-moving sports news. Copilot finished Week 5 with a 5-9 straight-up...
Microsoft’s Copilot — when asked to pick every game in an NFL week and give a final score — has become more than a novelty: it’s a live experiment in where conversational AI fits in sports journalism, editorial workflows, and even the betting ecosystem. USA TODAY’s sports desk ran Copilot...
Microsoft’s Copilot produced a full Week 3 slate of NFL score predictions for USA TODAY — a tidy, repeatable experiment that reveals as much about modern large language models as it does about football forecasting.
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USA TODAY ran a simple, repeatable workflow: prompt...
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USA TODAY's decision to run every Week 1 matchup through Microsoft Copilot produced a tidy, headline-friendly slate of predictions — and a revealing window into how modern large language models reason about sports: they reward established quarterbacks, prize defensive strength and coaching...