Cortana Precisely Guessing World Cup 2014 Winners

Eventually everyone has heard of Paul Octopus but Cortana could be a new word to you. However, if you are a huge fan of the Halo series on the Xbox Computer Entertainment System, Cortana shouldn’t be alien to you.

In the Halo games, Cortana is an artificial intelligence that goes wrong but the recent build by Microsoft has turned the program into a monster.
What is Cortana?Cortana was the codename for the newly announced intelligent personal assistant and knowledge navigator for Windows Phone 8.1. We didn’t know Microsoft was going to adopt and keep the codename which would now become a rival to Apple’s Siri and Google Now.
According to Microsoft, Cortana would be completely changing the social world; it is designed to be socially intelligent. For example, you can set a reminder on Cortana to ask a friend about something, and anytime you initiate an interaction with your friend, either through call or text, the reminder pops up.


So, Microsoft has been having fun with Cortana lately, especially in relation to the World Cup and the results thusfar has been absolutely mind-blowing.

As a result, Cortana has been receiving unexpected attention after it correctly predicted winners of the World Cup fixtures. The 100% accuracy is made possible by enabling Bing prediction engine on Cortana.

The Bing prediction engine uses a complex algorithm to process different inputs, such as team’s history, game history, home-team advantage, win/loss records, user searches and much more.

Here is Cortana's prediction for today’s match.
Currently, its 10-0 for Cortana, should the program prediction for today’s fixture go as planned, it would become 12-0 for Cortana. Let’s see what goes on today and we would continue to give you updates about Cortana.