Can machine learning predict history?

Machine learning tools can be useful for historians to analyse large volumes of data and minimize noise, suggests a new study. How do we know if an event is historic? An event's historical significance depends on how it affects subsequent events in the future. But predicting this can be difficult: what may seem historic now may be deemed trivial by future generations. New research suggests that, even with machine learning tools, determining historical significance is difficult but these tools can still help historians.