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Crush -> What this board needs ;) (5/9/2009 2:07:22 PM)
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17101-innovation-computers-to-keep-our-emotions-in-check.html The internet allows anyone with the appropriate hardware to freely express themselves to the world at large using a website or blog. But we are not sharing our thoughts with only other humans: web pages are read by software agents all the time, including search engine spiders and spambots. Now a new kind of agent is starting to roam the web that can understand the emotional content of what we write – and they could soon arrive on your desktop too. These "sentiment analysis" tools are a branch of a wider area of computer science that is trying to teach computers to understand the feelings expressed in text just as well as humans do, and the commercial applications of such technology are already starting to be realised. More at the link above

Raechard -> RE: What this board needs ;) (5/9/2009 2:12:00 PM)
Try as it may it will never understand emoticons though[sm=fingers.gif]

Crush -> RE: What this board needs ;) (5/9/2009 2:19:51 PM)
it will get there eventually.....;}

Raechard -> RE: What this board needs ;) (5/9/2009 2:22:26 PM)
With computers they can do anything. This technology probably came about in relation to searching for online terrorist communications.

Crush -> RE: What this board needs ;) (5/9/2009 4:19:32 PM)
Or SkyNet....

LookieNoNookie -> RE: What this board needs ;) (5/9/2009 5:17:48 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Crush http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17101-innovation-computers-to-keep-our-emotions-in-check.html The internet allows anyone with the appropriate hardware to freely express themselves to the world at large using a website or blog. But we are not sharing our thoughts with only other humans: web pages are read by software agents all the time, including search engine spiders and spambots. Now a new kind of agent is starting to roam the web that can understand the emotional content of what we write – and they could soon arrive on your desktop too. These "sentiment analysis" tools are a branch of a wider area of computer science that is trying to teach computers to understand the feelings expressed in text just as well as humans do, and the commercial applications of such technology are already starting to be realised. More at the link above Your point is?

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