Sutton's opening weekend predictions v Courteeners frontman Liam Fray
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Published 4 hours ago The score is Machines 1-0 Humans - at least when it comes to predicting football results, anyway.
AI - in this case Microsoft chatbot CoPilot - finished top of the BBC predictions league at the first attempt last season, but will it stay there?
BBC Sport football expert Chris Sutton, his guests and the BBC readers will be hoping to strike back, and land a blow for the human race.
"It was a final-day defeat for me, that is how close I came to the title," Sutton said.
"But I keep reading how AI models are going rogue and attacking each other.
"So, was I hacked too? It sounds like cheating to me - if so, then last season should really go down as a victory for me."
Who will win this time? Sutton is again making predictions for all 380 Premier League games this season, against AI, BBC Sport readers and a variety of guests.
You can make your own score predictions below too, and then see which scoreline is the most popular. That will be used to calculate the readers' points total.
A correct result (picking a win, draw or defeat) is worth 10 points. The exact score earns 40 points.
Sutton's guest for the opening round of games is Courteeners frontman Liam Fray.
Courteeners' latest single, Plus One Forever, is out now. It is taken from their forthcoming 'best of' compilation, God Bless The Band, which is out on 28 August.
Liam is a Manchester United fan who is optimistic about their prospects for the new season, mostly because of boss Michael Carrick.
"I am pretty excited," he told BBC Sport. "Listen, we are not going to be challenging for the title because we are not at Arsenal or Manchester City 's level, but I think we will be up there - and I love Carrick. I was like 'give him the job straight away' when Ruben Amorim was sacked in January.
"I am biased because we play a bit of golf and we have had a few beers, but it means a lot when you see someone stood on the touchline who seems to care.
"I don't mean that just because he used to play for us, I mean it because he seems to have that connection with the club, and especially with the fans.
"We have had plenty of managers recently who I am sure are passionate in their own way but, for me, it is a bit like being on stage - it is not that difficult to let people watching see that you are fully into what you are doing.
"I think that, when you do that, you get a lot back. Ralf Rangnick, Erik ten Hag and Amorim were all good coaches I am sure, but it is good to see someone who cares and seems to want to do it for us as well as himself and the team... so, yeah, with him in charge I am really up for it."
Chris Sutton and Liam Fray were speaking to BBC Sport's Chris Bevan.
The AI predictions were generated using Microsoft Copilot Chat - we simply asked the tool to 'predict this weekend's Premier League results'.
Want to make more predictions? You can play BBC Sport's new Match of the Day predictor game every week, featuring six fixtures from domestic and European competitions.
What information do we collect from this quiz? Emirates Stadium, 20:00 BST
Arsenal are the team to beat, and their squad just looks so strong.
I never read too much into the Community Shield but to beat Manchester City as comprehensively as they did was hugely impressive, and shows where they are at.
Bruno Guimaraes is a good signing and while Christos Tzolis could not cut it at Norwich - the jersey was too big for him - he looks the part too.
Joking aside, it was Daniel Farke who signed Tzolis for the Canaries in 2021 and called him one of the brightest young prospects in Europe, and he has been proven right about that.
This is all bad news for Coventry, though.
Speaking of Norwich, they have not been in the top flight for a few years now but I always remember them getting stuffed in their opening-day fixture in 2019 when they played Liverpool away , and it is a nightmare for Sky Blues boss Frank Lampard to open with a game like this.
I suppose, on the flip-side, if Coventry can somehow go to the Emirates and get a draw against the champions, that would provide such a huge boost to their players.
But I can't see past an Arsenal win and the scoreline just depends how much Mikel Arteta's side put their foot down.
Liam's prediction: It is good to have Coventry back in the Premier League - I remember completing my Merlin sticker album when I was a kid, when they had Roy Wegerle and Steve Ogrizovic in their team. I think they will have a good season, and I don't expect them to get battered every week, but they just need to take the hit here, because this is just about as tough a start as you can get. 3-0
What information do we collect from this quiz? MKM Stadium, 12:30
Hull's assistant head coach Dean Holden came on the Monday Night Club this week and spoke really well about how they will approach the Premier League. It sounds like they will be horrible to play against, and will be happy to go direct when they have to.
With them starting at home, getting a result against Manchester United - who Holden is a big fan of - could really make their season.
I think they will be competitive, but my worry for Hull is from looking at how they did last year, when they lost a third of their games in the Championship.
As a story, Sergej Jakirovic getting them from 21st place into the play-offs, and then up, is remarkable. Now they just need to hang on in there in the Premier League, but that will be very difficult.
United have not done much in the transfer market this summer, but Youri Tielemans is a really good signing - a safe signing, if there is such a thing - like Matheus Cunha and Bryan Mbeumo were last year.
As things stand, they are going to be stretched by being in the Champions League and I do feel like Carrick over-achieved by getting them there.
Now the expectations are rising following their third-place finish, but they are nowhere near Arsenal at the moment.
I think them having European football, while Tottenham and…
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