AI confirms Shakespeare's suspected co-author TheINQUIRER

SHAKESPEARE MAY BE one of the most famous Brits to ever live, but there's an ongoing suspicion that all the work credited to him may not actually be his. Now AI is on the case, and it seems to have confirmed one of the most widely believed theories: that the bard had a co-author on Henry VIII. As long suspected, that co-author seems to be John Fletcher. That theory has been around since 1850, but the methods of testing it have been human-based text analyses. Czech researcher Petr Plecháč turned to AI to look for patterns that humans might miss, and although the results confirmed the 169-year-old theory, there were a couple of twists worthy of the man himself. By feeding his machine learning algorithm eight plays - four by Shakespeare and four by Fletcher - the AI's verdict was that Henry VIII was a near 50/50 production between the two men.