Are secret love letters really anonymous?
Imagine a computer that can identify if a piece of text was actually written by Shakespeare. Or recognize whether it was written by a man or a woman. Perhaps it could even give an exact profile of an abductor that left a letter with instructions. In this video lecture Malvina Nissim explains how you can use artificial intelligence to identify people based on words.
Universiteit van Nederland
Through the Universiteit van Nederland, inspiring academics share interesting and new insights from their fields of research by means of short lectures. They bring science to life for a young and wide-ranging public by answering provocative questions in various formats. From dark matter to animals’ experiences of love: just about everything is covered.
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