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AI pegged Trump as a single guy based on his Twitter habits 16 January 2019

President Trump’s Twitter habits fooled Russian scientists into thinking he was a single guy, according to a new study.

Researchers from Information Technology, Optical Design and Engineering University in Saint Petersburg used artificial intelligence trained to determine a person’s marital status based on their social media use on tweets by Trump and former President Obama.

An algorithm that predicts relationship status with 86 per cent accuracy has decided President Trump is single 16 January 2019

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”.