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Has George Clooney peaked? This algorithm knows

A deep-learning program predicts whether an actor’s most productive year lies ahead or has already passed.
Actors Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson

Male actors (Bill Murray, left) tend to have their busiest year later in their careers than female actors (Scarlett Johansson, right). Credit: Focus/Kobal/Shutterstock

The International Movie Database (IMDb) isn’t just a marvellous place to waste time on the Internet. It’s also a gold mine of quantitative data on show-business careers — data that have now been harnessed to predict the arc of an actor’s career.

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Nature 570, 140 (2019)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-019-01768-5

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