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Students at the Technical University of Munich
have developed an application to predict which character has the
best chance to claim the coveted Iron Throne in the HBO hit
medieval fantasy series about warring families.
They have taught the application to scour the web for
information about each of the characters, which is then
processed by artificial intelligence algorithms to assess their
survival chances.
"We scraped the results from different Wiki pages and Wiki-like
pages about the books and TV show and we took out data like
gender and age of the characters," said student Christian
Dallago. "We put all this together to train the algorithm to
tell us when this character is going to die."
There is a good chance the application will get it right.
Back in 2016, an algorithm created by computer science students
at the same university in the southern German city shortly
before the start of Season 6 accurately predicted that Jon Snow
would resurrect.
If you're still reading, clearly you're not a fan of plot twists
and turns.
So here you go: AI says that Daenerys Targaryen has the best
chance of survival in the final season, which starts on Sunday.
(This story has been refiled to correct title in headline,
paragraph 1 to Game, not Games)
(Reporting by Reuters TV; Writing by Joseph Nasr; Editing by
Alison Williams)
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