Relationship prediction algorithm with 86% accuracy rate decides Trump is single

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President Donald Trump’s erratic Twitter habits led a sophisticated computer algorithm to conclude that he lives “like a bachelor”.

The artificial intelligence system, which is used to predict the marital status of social media accounts and claims to have an 86 per cent accuracy rate, identified Mr Trump as “not married”.

The algorithm was developed by researchers at ITMO University in St Petersburg and the National University of Singapore, who trained the computer through machine learning to analyse data from Twitter, Instagram and Foursquare.

In order to predict marital status the programme looks at parameters such as tweet length, the kinds of images frequently posted, and check-in distribution.

In an experiment presented to an artificial intelligence conference San Francisco, researchers collected and analysed the social media accounts of Barack Obama and Donald Trump.

Using this data, the AI correctly guessed that Mr Obama was married.

According to the developers, the inconsistency can be explained by the President’s bachelor-like tendency for tweeting late at night, and the fact that his assistants often update his account on his behalf.

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