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World Cup AI predictor now lets users ask daft what-ifs
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Key facts
- The team behind the AI Octopus Euro 2024 predictor has updated its simulator for the 2026 FIFA World Cup, this time allowing users to throw natural-language scenarios at the model and see
- Spain currently has an 18 percent chance of lifting the trophy and a 26.8 percent chance of reaching the finals
- A Monte Carlo simulation of the tournament is used to generate win/lose/draw probabilities, and the score line is derived from 5,000 match runs
- The engine behind the Euro 2024 AI Octopus was written in TypeScript
Summary
The team behind the AI Octopus Euro 2024 predictor has updated its simulator for the 2026 FIFA World Cup, this time allowing users to throw natural-language scenarios at the model and see how the tournament might shake out. "Sensible questions work, a red card, a key injury, a heat wave, a squad switching base camp, but so do the daft ones, e.g. 'What if the tournament were played with rugby rules?'" said Luzmo CTO and co-founder Haroen Vermylen. The system is simple: enter a scenario in a prompt box, and the predictor spits out how the results might go. The engine behind the Euro 2024 AI Octopus was written in TypeScript. OpenAI models parse the request and generate summaries, and an agent is used to create or transform scenarios, call the calculation engine, answer questions, and so on.