Here are the results that our AI robot Kashef predicted for the three games on Monday.
Kashef, our artificial intelligence (AI) forecaster, is heading to the 2022 World Cup where Paul the Octopus was the 2010 edition.
Kashef has been playing with history and trends to predict the outcome of every game, right up to the end.
Here are his predictions for Monday’s three games:
WHO: England vs Iran, Group B
Where: Khalifa International Stadium
When: Monday, November 21 (4pm local time, 1:00pm GMT)
Kashef predicts victory in England this afternoon. A good start for Harry Kane’s team if things go according to Kashef’s plans.
Read the match a snapshot Here.
WHO: Senegal v Netherlands, Group A
Where: Al Thumama Stadium
When: Monday, November 21 at 16:00 GMT
The European team to come out again in the second game of the day, says Kashef. Senegal, don’t forget, are the dominant force in Africa so they will want to prove Kashef wrong today.
Read the match a snapshot Here.
WHO: USA v Wales, Group B
Where: Ahmed bin Ali Stadium
When: Monday, November 21, 10pm (19:00 GMT)
Will Gareth Bale be happy with Kashef this morning? Maybe not. It has taken Wales a long time to get back to the World Cup. They don’t want to start that and lose.
Read the match a snapshot Here.
How does our AI work?
Al Jazeera has collected over 200 metrics to measure the performance of the 32 teams competing in this year’s World Cup.
This includes the number of winners, goals scored, FIFA rankings and more, from matches played in the last century, which exceeded 100,000.
We ran this through Google Cloud’s Vertex AI, which creates sophisticated models – based on Google Brain – that uses Efficient Neural Architecture Search (ENAS) to find the best predictive model. The data pipeline is built with GCP-BigQuery.
After each game, the model will be repeated to show the result of the next game until the end.
Predicting the outcome of a game is not easy. External factors such as the culture of the team or the fitness of the players make a big difference in how the game goes.
Based on our estimates for the 2014 and 2018 World Cups, Kashef is about 71 percent accurate, with an area under the curve (AUC) of about 67 percent.
