Rafters against the Machine

Six Nations Round II

A big weekend in Round II of the Genesis Six Nations, a weekend that could easily determine which team will hoist the trophy with a Grand Slam.

All eyes will be on Lansdown Road when Ireland Hosts France on Saturday afternoon. With this game behind them Saturday’s victor in Dublin will be on track to proceed undefeated through the remaining three rounds and hoist the trophy in March.

There are no real spoilers facing either team after Saturday unless the new combination of backs in the backfield rallies England to a few unlikely victories. However, if Italy plays as well as it did against the French last week, we may be looking at an upset at Twickenham on Sunday.

To help you navigate this weekend’s matches, Rafters has enlisted the help from the machines, an internet sourced AI named GPT-3, to help with this week’s predictions.

Rafters verses Artificial Intelligence.

Recently Rafters discovered  a new toy, GPT-3 artificial intelligence, we immediately decided to pit GPT-3 against Rafters in the first ever (as far as we know) Six Nations Round Two prediction challenge.

Ireland hosts France

GPT-3’s Prediction: Ireland will beat France by a score of 23-13.
Rafters Prediction: Ireland wins a close one at Landsdown Road, 24 - 21.

Scotland hosts Wales

GPT-3’s Prediction: Scotland will beat Wales by a score of 21-10.
Rafters Prediction: Scotland thumps Wales at Murry field, Scotland 34 Wales 17.

England Hosts Italy

GPT-3’s Prediction: “England will most likely win the rugby match against Italy with a score of around 25-10.”
Rafters Prediction: “Italy wins its for the first time at Twickenham, 25-23 Italy.

(GPT-3 Query: “Predict the score of X Team verses Y Team rugby match on Saturday.”)