(Image credit: FIFA)
I consider myself the most casual soccer fan there is. Just me calling the sport “soccer” and not referring to its proper name of “fútbol” has resulted in me getting dirty stares at bars where the World Cup games are on.Even with my lack of knowledge about the sport as a whole, I’ve enjoyed every nail-biting minute of the games I’ve watched thus far. Witnessing the US get trounced by Belgium and screaming my head off when Argentina eked out a win against Egypt have stood out as some of the more exciting developments of this year’s World Cup competition.Now that we’ve finally reached the quarterfinals, I went and looked back at ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity’s predictions for who would emerge as the champions of this year’s World Cup once it started. To my surprise, they all chose Spain. And right now, Spain is still alive and is set to compete against Belgium. So all three chatbots’ initial picks for the winner might still ring true.With that in mind, I ran another World Cup winner prediction experiment with those same three AI models now that we’re set for quarterfinals action. Once again, I was shocked by their picks and am now readying myself for another team to take the trophy home.ChatGPT’s championship prediction
