Microsoft's Cortana has a perfect track record in predicting World Cup victories

While Cortana can’t offer full voice control yet, the new Windows Phone 8.1 personal assistant can answer to pretty much any question you may have. Thus, lots of soccer / football fans started asking her who would win in various matches played at the 2014 FIFA World Cup. Until now, all the predictions that Cortana made turned out to be accurate. The last prediction was that Germany would win over France in today’s first quarter-final - and that’s what just happened, as the French team lost 0 - 1 to Die Mannschaft.

Cortana also predicted a winner for the other quarter-final that’s about to start today: Brazil - Colombia. She believes that Brazil, the host nation of the World Cup, will win. If Cortana is right on this one, too, it will be her tenth correct prediction.

As we told you a couple of days ago, Cortana uses Bing-powered algorithms for its predictions. Of course, you shouldn’t hurry up betting on Brazil just yet - because, you know, even machines can be wrong. Anyway, we’ll see in a few hours if Cortana got this one right.

via: Nokia US (Twitter)

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posted on 04 Jul 2014, 14:48 8

1. Finalflash (Posts: 3485; Member since: 23 Jul 2013)

OMG, its the reincarnation of the match predicting octopus. ALL HAIL PRIDOCTOPUS.

posted on 04 Jul 2014, 15:51 10

9. akki20892 (Posts: 3902; Member since: 04 Feb 2013)

I'm still missing that octopus.....

Go Messi....

posted on 04 Jul 2014, 14:49 5

2. enthasuium (Posts: 138; Member since: 21 Nov 2013)

Advertisement stunt by Nokia & Microsoft

posted on 04 Jul 2014, 18:40 8

17. Liveitup (Posts: 1798; Member since: 07 Jan 2014)

Who cares if its a stunt or not, she has been dead on. Kudos to Cortana. Brazil ended up beating Columbia also.

posted on 04 Jul 2014, 20:59 1

19. Napalm_3nema (Posts: 2236; Member since: 14 Jun 2013)

Cortana is cool, but that is no big feat. She predicted the group winners all winning in the Rd of 16 (They all did), and the favorites to win today (They did). It's just simple statistical analysis, and all of the work has already been done for you.

posted on 04 Jul 2014, 21:45 1

21. Shatter (Posts: 2036; Member since: 29 May 2013)

It isn't even a Cortana feature it is just pulling information from Bing (Still owned by Microsoft).

posted on 05 Jul 2014, 13:40

36. DAMONORIBELLO (Posts: 109; Member since: 18 Mar 2012)

umm, Microsoft owns BING and Cortana...

posted on 04 Jul 2014, 14:50 2

3. tincholioi (Posts: 10; Member since: 04 Jul 2014)

she'd better predict my country to win haha

posted on 04 Jul 2014, 14:58 12

4. brrunopt (Posts: 742; Member since: 15 Aug 2013)

Google predicted France would win... Now we know witch one is better

http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com.br/2014/07/google-cloud-platform-goes-8-for-8-in-soccer-predictions.html?m=1

posted on 04 Jul 2014, 16:04 11

10. jroc74 (Posts: 6019; Member since: 30 Dec 2010)

Yup...Google sucks.

posted on 05 Jul 2014, 00:09 3

26. StraightEdgeNexus (Posts: 3689; Member since: 14 Feb 2014)

Lmfao... 8 wp kids +1ed you, thinking you were serious LOL.

posted on 05 Jul 2014, 04:09 5

28. NokiaFTW (Posts: 2072; Member since: 24 Oct 2012)

Have you mistaken us WP fans and users for your childish brains? Oh, I get it, you're still not brainy enough to understand sarcasm.

posted on 05 Jul 2014, 09:52

33. StraightEdgeNexus (Posts: 3689; Member since: 14 Feb 2014)

Fanboys like you don't have brains anyway. Stupid shill.

posted on 05 Jul 2014, 09:58

35. Arte-8800 (banned) (Posts: 4562; Member since: 13 Mar 2014)

Fanboys don't have no merits, like Nokiaftw.

posted on 05 Jul 2014, 14:37

37. 8800-Arte (banned) (Posts: 50; Member since: 05 Jun 2014)

That makes no sense buddy.

posted on 05 Jul 2014, 09:20 1

30. KenAdams (Posts: 55; Member since: 17 Feb 2014)

Sarcasm? What's that straight guy?

posted on 05 Jul 2014, 17:53

39. jroc74 (Posts: 6019; Member since: 30 Dec 2010)

Yup

;-)

posted on 04 Jul 2014, 15:16 4

5. Cyberchum (Posts: 729; Member since: 24 Oct 2012)

And Brasil has scored.

posted on 04 Jul 2014, 15:28

6. Arte-8800 (banned) (Posts: 4562; Member since: 13 Mar 2014)

That's good news.

posted on 04 Jul 2014, 17:33 2

15. apple4never (Posts: 1064; Member since: 08 May 2013)

and brazil has won!!!

posted on 04 Jul 2014, 15:40

7. fzacek (Posts: 2486; Member since: 26 Jan 2014)

It's pretty obvious that Brazil is a better team than Colombia. Brazil even won the 2002 FIFA World Cup...

posted on 04 Jul 2014, 15:48 1

8. DogeShibe (Posts: 1115; Member since: 10 Jan 2014)

Well i don't have cortana yet,but they said we'll get it in first two weeks of july,so i got that going for me...which is nice :)
Football isn't my sport anyway.

posted on 04 Jul 2014, 16:52 1

11. NokiaFTW (Posts: 2072; Member since: 24 Oct 2012)

That free kick from Luiz though!

posted on 04 Jul 2014, 17:06 1

12. rd_nest (Posts: 1656; Member since: 06 Jun 2010)

It doesn't need a multi million dollar machine to predict a Brazil win over Colombia. You just need common sense, and basic knowledge of football.

posted on 04 Jul 2014, 17:24 2

13. Cyberchum (Posts: 729; Member since: 24 Oct 2012)

That easy huh? Bet you must won loads of bucks on betting and pretty sure you see Costa Rica mauling Uruguay.

posted on 04 Jul 2014, 23:03 1

24. bon24x7 (Posts: 211; Member since: 30 Aug 2012)

your comment shows you've zero knowledge of football.

posted on 04 Jul 2014, 21:06

20. a_tumiwa (Posts: 378; Member since: 16 Mar 2012)

omg that david luiz is so good when playing for country, when he played for chelsea, he is just average

posted on 04 Jul 2014, 22:06

22. -box- (Posts: 3991; Member since: 04 Jan 2012)

Well, she's from the future, so of course she knows the outcomes ;)

posted on 04 Jul 2014, 22:56 3

23. cleat-glitch (Posts: 109; Member since: 07 Feb 2014)

go germany

posted on 05 Jul 2014, 00:02

25. roscuthiii (Posts: 2233; Member since: 18 Jul 2010)

Germany has one of the deepest rosters and is a heavy favorite... doesn't take digital predilection to pick Die Mannschaft.

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