Microsoft's Bing World Cup prediction engine on Cortana virtual assistant is 12-for-12 at predicting games

Jul 08, 2014

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Microsoft added a World Cup prediction engine to the Cortana virtual assistant program on June 28th (about two weeks after the World Cup actually began). Since then, it's 12-for-12 at predicting winners. That's absurd, because those 12 games involve Costa Rica's surprising run to the quart…

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