Microsoft correctly predicted top 2015 Oscar winning awards

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ANI Washington
Last Updated : Feb 24 2015 | 12:25 PM IST

Microsoft's Bing prediction engine has correctly predicted the 2015 top Oscar winning wards that include best picture, best director, best actor, best actress, and the results for supporting actor and actress.

According to the Verge, in all Microsoft successfully predicted 84 percent of the 24 results and only 4 were wrongly predicted.

Microsoft uses a prediction model for the Oscars that is under Microsoft researcher David Rothschild over at the company's New York City research lab.

Microsoft had also predicted the World Cup, English soccer results and NFL games.

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First Published: Feb 24 2015 | 12:15 PM IST

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