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. 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.
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