http://www.tom-mccluskey.com/2008/11/written-by-a-genuine-person/ Sat, 14 Mar 2009 22:37:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 http://www.tom-mccluskey.com/2008/11/written-by-a-genuine-person/#comment-29 bk Mon, 01 Dec 2008 18:50:26 +0000 http://www.tom-mccluskey.com/?p=60#comment-29 wow. first there were robot bartenders and now this. pretty soon blogs will be just another stream of content that the machines will use to tell us what to believe and think. why am i so excited? wow. first there were robot bartenders and now this. pretty soon blogs will be just another stream of content that the machines will use to tell us what to believe and think. why am i so excited?

]]> http://www.tom-mccluskey.com/2008/11/written-by-a-genuine-person/#comment-28 Linda M Meyer Sun, 30 Nov 2008 19:12:25 +0000 http://www.tom-mccluskey.com/?p=60#comment-28 This is an angle I hadn't considered, Tom, so I'm doubly glad you explored it. It would be interesting to sit down with a copyright lawyer and chat about this. Keep me posted if you dig deeper into this issue. This is an angle I hadn’t considered, Tom, so I’m doubly glad you explored it. It would be interesting to sit down with a copyright lawyer and chat about this. Keep me posted if you dig deeper into this issue.

]]> http://www.tom-mccluskey.com/2008/11/written-by-a-genuine-person/#comment-27 admin Sun, 30 Nov 2008 11:28:06 +0000 http://www.tom-mccluskey.com/?p=60#comment-27 Definitely the case, yes. The software being offered here isn't going to understand the articles it's collecting; it's nothing but a news aggregator, really. Until programs get sophisticated enough to analyze English for meaning, we're unlikely to see anything from them other than snippets of articles (or the entire thing) written elsewhere. Seems to me this is really nothing more than a way of generating splogs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splog) that appear to have some sort of relevance to a given topic. Definitely the case, yes. The software being offered here isn’t going to understand the articles it’s collecting; it’s nothing but a news aggregator, really. Until programs get sophisticated enough to analyze English for meaning, we’re unlikely to see anything from them other than snippets of articles (or the entire thing) written elsewhere. Seems to me this is really nothing more than a way of generating splogs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splog) that appear to have some sort of relevance to a given topic.

]]> http://www.tom-mccluskey.com/2008/11/written-by-a-genuine-person/#comment-25 linnea spens Sun, 30 Nov 2008 05:14:34 +0000 http://www.tom-mccluskey.com/?p=60#comment-25 Excellent point and interesting blog. I think with anything automated that you have to worry about losing the human element. Excellent point and interesting blog. I think with anything automated that you have to worry about losing the human element.

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