Innovation: Software to track our emotional outbursts

I belive it was not posted here before.

from the source:

"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."

whole article here:
www.newscientist.com...

something is telling mw that it will be used to control our emotions through the internet. it is all about control and propaganda.

read the whole article please

just to add:

"In what may be the first assessment of its kind, a private company that offers a range of privacy products for computers and other technology is ranking the United States No. 6 in the world for having the most aggressive procedures for monitoring residents electronically.

The report, called The Electronic Police State, assesses the status of governmental surveillance in 52 nations around the globe for 2008.

The document was released Cryptohippie, Inc., which was set up in 2007 through the acquisition of several little-known but highly regarded providers of privacy technologies.

Not surprisingly, China and North Korea ranked No. 1 and No. 2, with Belarus and Russia following up. But the United Kingdom ranked fifth followed by the United States. "

link to the source:
www.worldnetdaily.com...

AI will never be able to quantify all human attributes.

If I rage about internet censors interfering with our freedom of speech how would a computer quantify my rage and what if I was being sarcastic or flat out lying.

There is only boundless misinterpretation in allowing computers to quantify humanity. Take a best guess from a sample and run it through a real human for real results.