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The men lured to Buck’s apartment, who were often homeless and addicted, were plied with drugs during the encounters and were often offered extra money if they allowed Buck to inject them with drugs.

When asked a question, they ply through their database and try to synthesize from it the most probable answer.

The team plied their subject AI models with questions drawn from a popular collection of more than 8,000 grade school arithmetic problems testing schoolchildren’s understanding of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.

Duncan said three generations of the Stone family plied their trade in photographic media, himself working as the cameraman to King Charles and Queen Camilla, for the BBC, ITV and Sky.

They are being plied with novelty merchandise, from foam fingers to fake tan, and are packing into the bars every night to debate the relative merits of the four contenders.