Sunday, May 17, 2015

"Watson" reads this blog...

Following a link from a thread on Reddit, I found out I could put a sample of my writing into a linguistic analyzer powered by the IBM "Watson" computer (or is it an algorithm?)

Upon reading 500 or so words from the previous post, "Watson" concludes that:

You are inner-directed, shrewd and can be perceived as critical. You are authority-challenging: you prefer to challenge authority and traditional values to help bring about positive changes. You are independent: you have a strong desire to have time to yourself. And you are reserved: you are a private person and don't let many people in. Your choices are driven by a desire for revelry. You consider achieving success to guide a large part of what you do: you seek out opportunities to improve yourself and demonstrate that you are a capable person. You are relatively unconcerned with tradition: you care more about making your own path than following what others have done.

Not sure where that "desire for revelry" comment comes from. Otherwise—fair enough...

Also: I put in samples from a couple of other blogs (J.T. Eberhardt's and Dana Hunter's) and the results were extremely different from the above. So its analysis may not be "true" but it is certainly non-trivial.

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