Algorithm predicted who will bite the dust next in Game of Thrones

This article could involve spoilers, if you believe an algorithm can accurately predict who will be killed off in the Game of Thrones. Of course if you were to believe the Game of Thrones season 6 poster and trailers, then it looks like all the big players are dead and in the Hall of Faces.

After being curious enough to check out the algorithm’s predictions, I thought, No! Say it isn’t so! The first thing I saw was that Daenerys Targaryen, Mother of Dragons, “got a pair of cement shoes.” Clicking through though, shows a page explaining why she might win the Game of Thrones and sit on the Iron Throne. The reasoning behind the two extremes is that the got.show editorial staff believes she can win the Game of Thrones, but their machine learning algorithm predicts Daenerys has a 95% likelihood of death.

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