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Originally posted by operation mindcrime
Thanks for that short summery of Eco's story.....
reading peoples "body language" over the internet would be best explained as looking at the amount of emotion they put into their words (subconsiously) and what they really mean instead of what they are saying, right??
No hard evidence here. Just an anecdotal story. Sorry..
Originally posted by venividivici
Clif High and his team have been "refining" his linguistics program for over a decade. Yes, I have researched it thoroughly.
Originally posted by Vanitas
Originally posted by venividivici
Clif High and his team have been "refining" his linguistics program for over a decade. Yes, I have researched it thoroughly.
Good! So, can I have your opinion, too, regarding the validity of the data, considering that barely 1/4 of the world's population has access to the internet, never mind the time to chit-chat on various forums all day long?
(N.B. This is NOT a stab at ATS. )
It may sound stupid or whatever to you (I am not saying it does), but to me it sounds perfectly valid.
[edit on 4-10-2009 by Vanitas]
I guess its like a scientific survey. You don't need to poll the entire earth. You can extrapolate from the data to derive and answer.
Sorry I can't be more helpful. By the way, according to an interview given last year. Clif avoids data from the USA becuase it is too emotionally charged . I found that to be interesting.
Originally posted by Iamonlyhuman
reply to post by unityemissions
No duping people here. It's better, IMO, to know of things that could possibily happen than to be taken totally by surprise if they do happen.
I'm not saying that this will definitely happen... just that everyone should be prepared in case it does.
Originally posted by ecoparity
Since you insist on claiming the web bot is simply google type search terms, here are the top 10 search terms for the past 12 months. On that website you can search trends for just about any combination of time, location and subject. Please tell us how this translates into the web bot data outputs:
Google Trends Insight
Rising searches
1. facebook login +1,650%
2. michael jackson +800%
3. tuenti +300%
4. facebook +300%
5. facebook.com +250%
6. youtube.com +130%
7. yahoo mail +110%
8. face +110%
9. mail +70%
10. jogos +70%
I don't care if you like it, hate it whatever - stop spreading false info to back up your opinion, please.
[edit on 4-10-2009 by ecoparity]
A system of spiders, agents, and wanderers travel the Internet, much like a search engine robot, and look for particular kinds of words. It targets discussion groups, translation sites, and places were regular people post a lot of text.
Originally posted by NickT916
Originally posted by Iamonlyhuman
reply to post by unityemissions
No duping people here. It's better, IMO, to know of things that could possibily happen than to be taken totally by surprise if they do happen.
I'm not saying that this will definitely happen... just that everyone should be prepared in case it does.
ok how about this.... whats better... you get your arm chopped off by surprise or someone holding you hand and you see the axe and you know you will get your arm chopped off hmm??
Originally posted by ecoparity
like a search engine spider. If I were Cliff I wouldn't have made that comparison because it just confuses the hell out of people.
What passes for standard programming in the business world, the web and so on is nothing like the coding performed in AI projects. We don't even use the same programming languages.
Mathematical probabilities? Please.
Its a waste of time to try and enlighten people on this subject, clearly. It really is too bad Cliff has made the effort to put things into terms people will understand because it just leads to more misunderstanding.
Originally posted by ecoparity
reply to post by Whatthehell?
You accuse the guy of inventing fiction but lead off with "he should make it open source for others who want to help humanity"?
I don't know how to address the contradiction, sorry.
There's solid technology in the program, the weakness is the human in the loop performing the analysis. I've only said that about 6 or 7 times now.
I don't believe Cliff is just making stuff up. I think he's really seeing strange results from the sweeps and either misses on the analysis completely or lacks something needed to put it in the right context. If he's just putting the raw results out there no matter how strange that would indicate a great deal of honesty on his part. I don't think we have enough insight to be able to accuse the man of something, however but it hasn't stopped several people from doing so.
Sadly typical of a large number of ATS "skeptics". When in doubt accuse, accuse, accuse. Anyone making a claim of any kind must show absolutely convincing, scientific proof in triplicate but the skeptics can jump to unfounded conclusions based on personal opinion all day long.
I'll take the person who can honestly say "I don't know" due to lack of evidence over one who thinks absolute disbelief represents skepticism. If they aren't willing to explore or be convinced then why bother showing up for the journey?
Exaggerations and outright false representation of the project reports isn't helping, by the way. There's been quite a bit of that in this discussion so be careful about taking second hand information. The "weird" side of the data is fine on its own without adding to it.