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Microsoft's Bing's predictions correctly predicted the top Oscars winners

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Microsoft’s Bing predictions engine has been responsible for predicting the World Cup, English soccer results, and NFL games, but last night it turned its attention to the 87th Academy Awards. Bing successfully predicted best picture,

best director, best actor, best actress, and the results for supporting actor and actress out of the top awards for the 2015 Oscars. Overall, Microsoft successfully predicted 84 percent of the 24 results, with only four incorrect predictions.
 

Ahead of the Oscars Microsoft shared its latest predictions, noting that most of the awards are "relatively unpredictable." Microsoft uses a prediction model for the Oscars that is managed by Microsoft researcher David Rothschild over at the company’s New York City research lab. Rothschild correctly predicted 21 of 24 Oscar winners last year, and 19 of 24 winners in 2013. In comparison, Vegas odds from the Wynn casino weren’t nearly as accurate.

The Wynn predicted best picture, best actress, best actor, best supporting actress, best supporting actor, and best director, but only managed to correct 4 of 6 correctly. Microsoft predicted all six accurately.

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Source : http://www.theverge.com/2015/2/23/8089593/microsoft-bing-oscar-predictions

 

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Maybe because they are in on selections! All an attempt to control who and what we see on TV!

 

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Hmmm, I guess that's just icing on the cake for me. So far, I've gone a little over 2 weeks with as little of Google's services as possible (exception being youtube, chromecast, and chrome with bing set as default search engine and homepage) Bing actually works surprisingly good and does some things better than Google. 

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Hmmm, I guess that's just icing on the cake for me. So far, I've gone a little over 2 weeks with as little of Google's services as possible (exception being youtube, chromecast, and chrome with bing set as default search engine and homepage) Bing actually works surprisingly good and does some things better than Google. 

half of the time 

 

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half of the time 

 

It's an interesting journey of discovery. I just found out that if you hover over video results on bing, it'll open a small popup preview for you to watch and hear the video.. pretty neat.

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I can predict I will have at least one bowel movement tomorrow.

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Hmmm, I guess that's just icing on the cake for me. So far, I've gone a little over 2 weeks with as little of Google's services as possible (exception being youtube, chromecast, and chrome with bing set as default search engine and homepage) Bing actually works surprisingly good and does some things better than Google. 

 

As little as possible he says.. but expect for Youtbe, Chromecast and Chrome he says.. GG. :P

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pffft i reckon they were told

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If it can make predictions that are correct more than 50% of the time on sports games..... then I think I have a new betting partner.

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BULL. SHIT. Google can do flying pig levels better. Bing is super meh. If it were Google, I would be super psyched.

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