First Blog

FUTURE SPEAK “I can write but I can’t read.” Who could ever say that?   In fact, much of what you read today is generated by such entities.     Huh? You need a couple of active, commercially available products in wide application today.   Both are a part of NLP – Natural Language Processing.   The first is NLG – Natural Language Generation.   This is an outflow from AI (Artificial Intelligence) that can generate text from data (with templates and bias if you want). It is almost undetectable as machine generated, makes sense, and can be generated at the rate of thousands of pages per second.   It is used by news organizations, corporations, Investment firms, accounting firms, and the like.   It can be and probably is used by political parties to generate manifold texts for wide distribution.   Input is data, headline texts, and articles. It is nearly grammatically perfect. NLU – Natural Language Understanding.   Also, it is an application of AI. You Alexa uses this alr

Choice and Bernie .   For those of you disappointed with the presidential election, there is hope in the form of a Facebook page, occupydemocrats.   To me it is new.   Check out https://www.facebook.com/OccupyDemocrats/   This is a site for disgruntled, depressed, and disappointed people to vent about the election, basically to continue the debate, to encourage news reports disfavoring Trump, and to support Obama to seize power and allow another election – this time a fair election. It supports my view that bitterness of the losing party has intensified over the past couple of decades.   I am certain there are conservative sites, as well, allowing the other camp to vent their opinions on whatever, even the recent election outcomes. However, I don't know of any and won't look. Bernie Goldberg, a former CBS reporter, understands why.   To paraphrase, “People gravitate to sources of information that validate their own viewpoints, favoring what they say and rejecting alt