Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab

There are some photographs such as that of Aylan Kurdi lying dead on the shores of Turkey that go viral, and yet others are fast forgotten. MIT’s ComputerMIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) have created an algorithm they claim can predict how memorable or forgettable an image will be.

Researchers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology?s (MIT) Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) have found the most memorable characters from ?Game of Thrones? ? which caused a sensation in its season-five finale on June 14 ? using a special algorithm they developed to predict how memorable an image will be.