Meet the AI that knows who's going to die next in Game of Thrones

If you haven't been eagerly awaiting Game of Thrones season six, then you're probably no friend of mine. I'm also going to hazard a guess that you haven't quite hit it off with the cultural touchstone that is George R R Martin's fantasy epic, or its HBO adaptation. Spoiler alert: a lot of people die in Game of Thrones, generally in a grisly way and usually unexpectedly. That's why any news around who might die next is always welcome. Thanks to some researchers at the Technical University of Munich, we may know the next Game of Thrones star to shuffle off this mortal coil. Using the power of "Big Data", the research team put together a set of machine-learning algorithms to trawl through data from both the book and the TV show to predict who will get the axe next.