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How AI is changing March Madness brackets

With seedings set for March Madness, the premier college basketball competition, many fans will now turn to artificial intelligence for setting up their brackets to predict who will win each game.

Axios’ chief technology correspondent, Ina Fried, is testing out AI bots’ abilities to build a bracket again after calamity last year.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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