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(#9) You Can Read The Poems Online
Just because you aren't a researcher on the new Zodiac case doesn't mean that you can't read the creepy poems that CARMEL is spitting out. For the rest of us, a website featuring the program's poems is open to the public. If you aren't creeped out enough by reading the poems, why not fall into a pit of existential terror while listening to a robot read poems written by the mind of the Zodiac Killer?
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(#6) The AI Can Compare Multiple Handwritten Letters
After the investigators in Riverside discovered that the murderer of Cheri Jo Bates wrote a taunting letter to the local paper in the same style as the Zodiac Killer, they were able to obtain the document and send it to Knight and his team.
Once Knight had the note, he fed it into the computer in order to figure out if the Riverside letter and Z340 — or any of the Zodiac letters — were written by the same individual. Using a program called OCR (optical character recognition) that scans images and converts them into searchable text, they were able to make an eerie discovery.
During the opening episode of The Hunt for the Zodiac Killer the team discovers that both Zodiac and the Bates's killer used words and phrases in a similar manner. The most amazing discovery was that a Zodiac letter and the Bates's letter used the word "twitch" but spelled it "twich." Knight was quick to point out that there's only a one in a one-point-five million chance of this happening, making the discovery on par with uncovering a sample of the killer's fingerprints.
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(#8) The AI Somehow Became A Skilled Poet
After taking in so much information about the Zodiac Killer, and essentially doing nothing but thinking with the words that the killer used, it makes sense that CARMEL would begin to speak in the the killer's writing voice. The program is actually able to recite poetry using words and phrases pulled from Zodiac's letters, and it's spooky.
Why would researchers need a program that thinks like a killer? In order to better connect words and phrases used in the Z340 cipher, the program needs to "think" like the person who created the code. That way, if the program decodes a certain word, it can consider that word in the context with which Zodiac might have used it. The poetry is just a fascinating side-effect.
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(#7) The Team Believes Ross Sullivan May Have Been The Killer
Sullivan's name has been suggested by amateur Zodiac investigators for years. He matches the scant description given to Northern California police, and he was in the area at the time of the murders, but it's unknown if he was ever labeled an official suspect.
On the first episode of The Hunt for the Zodiac Killer, the team's field investigators discover that Sullivan was a suspect in the murder of Cheri Jo Bates (which matched Zodiac's MO), and that he worked a short walk away from where the woman was killed.
The most damning piece of evidence against Sullivan is that he was studying cryptography on the Riverside campus. If the murder of Bates was one of his early crimes, then it makes sense that he wouldn't have had all his methods worked out at that point.
After multiple hospitalizations for mental health problems, Sullivan dropped off the map completely. It's been theorized that he passed away in 1977 while living in Santa Cruz, three years after the final Zodiac post card.
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(#2) Kevin Knight Has Used AI To Crack Some Seriously Tough Codes
The creator of CARMEL isn't some fly-by-night scientist who thinks he can run Z340 through his computer and come out with the original Zodiac text; he's a a proven talent in the world of cryptography. Before attempting to solve the Zodiac case he used CARMEL to decode the Copiale Cipher, a 105-page book featuring 75,000 complex, handwritten characters that sat unsolved since the 18th century.
The only pieces of the text that weren't encoded were “Philipp 1866,” written at the start of the manuscript, and “Copiales 3” at the end. The Copiale Cipher was solved after a chance meeting between Kevin Knight and the cipher's owner, Christiane Schaefer.
There were number of missteps along the way, but it only took Knight a few weeks to crack the cipher. Inside, he discovered that the cipher belonged to the Great Enlightened Society of Oculists, a secret Germanic order that was obsessed with the human eye. According to the group's internal writings, they even performed an early eye surgery.
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(#4) New Information About Zodiac Is Still Coming In
At the time of the Zodiac murders, there was very little information about the killer available and any clues that were found were kept under wraps by local police departments.
In order to get as much information as possible about the killer, Knight and his team of researchers are working in tandem with two former law enforcement members who are reinvestigating the Zodiac Case. Sal LaBarbera and former FBI agent Ken Mains started their investigation in Riverside, California, at the site of what's considered by many to be the first "unofficial" Zodiac murder.
The two investigators believe that the murder of Cheri Jo Bates on Riverside City College's campus on the night of Oct. 30, 1966 was perpetrated before Zodiac had figured out how to cover all of his tracks. As the investigators discover new information about the murder — specifically new writings that the murderer may have left — they can send it to Knight and his team, who then feed it into their program.
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Zodiac Killer is a serial murderer who committed multiple murders in northern California in the late 1960s. Until 1974, he sent many provocative letters to the media and signed them. The letter contains 4 codes or encrypted content, and there are still 3 codes that have not been solved. With the help of advanced technology, scientists tried to create an AI that could reflect the idea of the Zodiac Killer, but the result did not go as expected, this AI was good at writing poetry.
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