( CNN ) -- We 've had octopuses , camels and turtles providing World Cup predictions , but now a computer software program has got in on the act of forecasting football matches . And , according to Microsoft , their recently released software program Cortana had a 100 % success rate in predicting the winners in Brazil 2014 's round of 16 games . Like Apple 's Siri , MIcrosoft 's virtual assistant Cortana -- named after the AI character in its Halo video games and voiced by the same actress -- is using a number of indicators to predict the winners of World Cup matches . `` For the tournament our models evaluate the strength of each team through a variety of factors such as previous win/loss/tie record in qualification matches and other international competitions and margin of victory in these contests '' said Microsoft 's Bing blog . One of the Cortana software developers Mouni Reddy tweeted : `` If she gets the United States-Belgium game right we are officially living in the matrix . '' And so it proved with Belgium beating Team USA 2-1 after extra time . So if you do n't want to know which teams will reach the World Cup semifinals look away now . If you 're still reading , Cortana predicts Germany will beat France , hosts Brazil will triumph over Colombia , Argentina getting the better of Belgium and the Netherlands knocking out Costa Rica . In pictures : Joy and pain for U.S. fans .
Software program says it has successfully predicted outcome of round of 16 World Cup games . Program named after the AI character in Microsoft 's Halo video games . Comment: