Entries due this Friday! Predict cherry blossom dates in five cities

This post is by Lizzie

As February draws to an end, so does your chance to enter the Cherry Blossom Prediction Competition! We challenge you to predict the bloom date of cherry trees at five locations throughout the world for cash and swag prizes. Entries are due Friday. 

This year, contestants will not only compete against each other for the top prizes–but against artificial intelligence. We will include one or more submissions from the most popular large language models. Our AI handlers will prompt the AI with the contest rules and the entries from previous competitions. The handlers will then execute any code written by the AI as part of their entry. Judges will review all entries without knowing which were submitted by humans and which were written by AI.

Any human that beats the AI will receive commemorative memorabilia indicating they “beat the bot in the 2025 International Cherry Blossom Prediction Competition.”