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Google Wants To Write Your Social Media Responses For You
taikedz writes "A new patent has been filed by Google that tries to analyze your past communications to then construct responses to the overwhelming amount of posts you receive. From the article: 'Essentially, the program analyzes the messages a user makes through social networks, email, text messaging, microblogging, and other systems. Then, the program offers suggestions for responses, where the original messages are displayed, with information about others reactions to the same messages, and then the user can send the suggested messages in response to those users. The more the user utilizes the program and uses the responses, the more the bot can narrow down the types of responses you make.'"
Because Google will do it for you?
I don't that's how patents work
to see the conversations that google has with itself over multiple users facebook accounts.
Now, How much does it cost to get them to inject Paid Adverts into those responses?
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Great! Eventually all social media communications will break down to a generic set of responses back and forth.
Next it will automatically search for cat and baby photos and automatically post them for you! The circle is complete.
Best movie I've ever seen!
Hey, what the hell?
Where are we going and why are we in a handbasket?
Please, google, leave me something to do besides shop.
You are welcome on my lawn.
Possible response:
Does it also detect Slashdot dupes?
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/11/20/161244/google-patents-fooling-friends-with-snooping-chatbots
I said. Does it also detect Slashdot dupes?
Sounds great!
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All replies will now be "lol"
I don't that's how patents work
That's how non-software patents work. The operating principle of the invention is disclosed in the patent.
When our name is on the back of your car, we're behind you all the way!
From TFA:
" ... the program analyzes the messages a user makes through social networks, email, text messaging, microblogging, and other systems. Then, the program offers suggestions for responses, where the original messages are displayed, with information about others reactions to the same messages, and then the user can send the suggested messages in response to those users ... "
So it boils down to a copy/paste bot affixed with some simple AI ?
Muchas Gracias, Señor Edward Snowden !
First post!
(c) Google Inc.
Are they going to integrate Emacs in to their web services?
M-x doctor
or
M-x psychoanalyze-pinhead
Or maybe they're porting their web services to elisp.
What I'd like to be able to do is schedule my FB posts. I just found something Christmas-funny. I'd like to post it to FB around December 20th, but what I'd actually like to do is upload it now and schedule for it to appear on my feed (erm, 'timeline') on December 20th. Or on the weekend, schedule up a bunch of funny stuff to appear throughout the week. Yeah, yeah, yeah I know there's probably some ActiveGNUPerlFoxScriptExtensionPlugIn BS that does what I want, but I just want a button in FB.
If they get to patent this garbage, we should disband the USPTO.
Eventually there will be more "bots" making posts than humans. But most people act "with the crowd". If one organisation controls most of the bots then they will hold enormous sway over "public opinion". After all, it is the perception of public opinion that matters - not the actual public opinion. Also, it a bit sad that people want to be on social media (because they cannot be bothered to meet up in real life) and now they want the computer to think up responses for them (because they can't be bothered to think them up for themselves).
"Shall I post a response of: 'OMG! LOL!1!' for you?" --Google
'If you were going to say one of these, STOP! you are being boring! Think of something original to say, or shut up!"
Prediction for end of Universe #42: Fencepost error in Quantum_bogosort.cpp
Isn't it a bit from http://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/11/20/161244/google-patents-fooling-friends-with-snooping-chatbots?
“My Google Being anticipates everything I would think, everything I would want to say or do or feel,” Larry explained. “It is in every way the same as me. So much so that my physical form is no longer necessary. It was just getting in the way, so we removed it. Keep in mind that for now at least, Google Being is just a developer product.”
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2013/05/on-google-island/
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With this labour saving device to do your tedious social interaction for you, we're starting to really make some inroads into automating the most boring parts of our lives.
I wonder how long after the extinction of the species it will be before the social media traffic starts to slow down.
Google are beta testing this feature on other social media websites. Pretty exciting!
Especially, my dirty laundry. Go away Google, you're too intrusive.
Stupid [insert posted_by()->name] always posts the stupidest dupes, ever. I'm so sick of this site, what has happen to it since [epoch + 1070071197]! It is not the site it used to be.
[insert witty remark about captcha]
[this response generated by Google]
The Google+ ... who needs subscribers
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The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
I don't need help!
I understand the revulsion you feel for this hateful speech. But you could have said, as did Oscar Wilde, "I may not agree with you, but I will defend to the death your right to make an ass of yourself."
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
Ernest Hemingway
Someone might pay to attain that sort of pseudo-immortality.
will be available, for a fee, to CEOs, politicians, PR reps and other professional propagandists. Situational ethics, integrity and religious references and cultural framing will be available as plug-ins for those who wish to enhance the ability of their avatars affect a particular demographic audience.
"Failed social media service Google+ has just had a massive influx of new members!"
Is this the most ridiculous thing you have ever heard of; this seems rather pointless.
Google is grasping for innovation, no one is asking for this feature and no one will use it, mark my words. Why not create theoretical users based upon real users
using social networking. We'll take actual users out of the equation entirely, just create virtual users.
Google has apparently ran out of ideas. Come on guys take some risks, don't be idiots.
You can keep being a troll long after you're dead.
"If any question why we died, Tell them because our fathers lied."
Oprah's statement is rather uninformed and I find it offensive...
So only white people can be racist now? Ever been to Japan? Or even the Middle East if that's closer to your home?
It's trolling and flamebait, this time in a racist flavour. We have a mods for both flamebait and trolling, and as long as those posts are modded as such, and we don't feed the trolls and fires, that ought to be enough.
This sounds almost like the premise of the sci-fi novel Avogadro Corporation: The Singularity Is Closer Than It Appears. Avogadro Corporation was ironically modeled after Google, and in the story they develop a system using recommendation algorithms to automatically suggest improvements to one's emails so that they produce favorable responses from recipients. What happens is that one of the programmers modifies the system to give it an overarching goal, gives it the privileges to write and send it's own emails as any Avogadro Mail user (think any Gmail user), and it begins to socially engineer people, allowing it to escape into the wild, take over whole governments, etc.
This Google project sounds eerily familiar. Better watch out, this could spell the end of us all.
No. Add more "!1"'s and finish with OMGWTFBBQ. Activate mode 6.
It's not the years, honey, it's the mileage. - Colonel Henry Walton Jones, Jr., Ph.D.
And that's just from search results.
Google is my DNS, 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.8.4 as they are damn quick; Posting a message
of the use of the 10.0.0.0 block I knew the RFC number but needed a link
I typed in RFC and one suggestion was 1918 (The RFC I was looking for).
I get a traffic ticket I want to see how bad it could of been, The
Revised Code of Washington (RCW) is where one goes for this in our area,
I type in RCW and the section I'm after is suggested.
The first one analogizing my post as I write it? The second a popular search?,
or Google's has extra info
It's one thing to know your giving info, it's another to see it in action.
is that you end up with Google simply having a conversation with itself, as your automated response is met by another automated response, which then triggers an automated reply and so on. No one saying anything, and it all happening at light speed.
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I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
It will be GREAT if this is patented. No one else will make such garbage again.
But I agree we should disband the USPTO.
Per Stephen Colbert: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HE0NRdNoVDk
I have been beliving at Slash Dot for a while we need a -1, RACIST moderation. It is sicking in this day & time how far some people will go to *HATE* one another. White people are inherently evil and need to ask the Black Race for forgivness on the whole. I for one am tired of it.
As Oparah said, bad white people will just have to DIE.
Your thoughts on the implementation ? Maybe if you get the RACIST moderation 3 times in a row your banned?
-KD
-1 Racist
I find that I consistently omit the apostrophe whenever I use the plural possessive form of the word "other". I wonder if the bot will pick up on that? Heck, my human editors never seem to even notice. Or, if they do, they don't want doctor others text, so they just indulge my Joycean literary genius and publish exactly the text I submit.
Jokes aside, I want a bot that would score high with employer bots, but low with NSA ones. The solution of not using social media and/or encrypting communications is not going to work - it'll probably put a (non)user right on no flying / non employable list. Open source project anybody?
for my part, if this program was applied widely, to some degree, would be a good news for us. zahnarzt instrumente
So let me get this straight - Google will perform our social media interactions for us, meaning I never need to log onto social media again.
Gee, that's really going to make the advertisers happy...
It is sicking in this day & time how far some people will go to *HATE* one another.
Yeah, totally.
As Oparah said, bad white people will just have to DIE.
Wait, what?
Rampant carbon sequestration destroyed the Dinosaurs' tropical paradise. I'm here to help repair the damage.
So after we're all dead from (choose one: global warming, biological warfare, zombie apocalypse), social media will just keep on ticking!
Most of my posts are either lengthy or very contextually relevant. This app is only going to serve the people that write "lolz" or "tldr" type responses... aka morons.
I've decided to stop wasting my time responding to AC trolls/sockpuppets... so if you want a response from me... login.
I can't wait to see this system having a conversation with itself.
how can you ban someone who posts as AC?
I'm not on any social media sites, I would like to see you try writing my responses for me... LOL.
In fact, I had already stopped commenting on Youtube ever since the mandatory Google+ signup. It's a little inconvenience that's far better than being used as a pawn to artificially boost Google+ users in order to placate shareholders.
When companies get too big for their own good, when the rights of shareholders become more important than the rights of customers, companies inevitably decline and fail. Refer to Microsoft and the various big game publishers.
Table-ized A.I.
... The Singularity Is Closer Than It Appears.
only in your rear view mirror.
I love Google. They're awesome and you should too. Show them the love with your data and search for all your deepest secrets #notabot
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I was with you until you typed "your" instead of "you're"
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Servers talking to each other. Next thing Google will order your shopping for you, why even bother to think! The products Google orders for you are probably healthier for you anyway.
Maybe then they'd come up sooner than 5 days later than everywhere else..
Here we come
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MONDAY MORNING, In A Human Face Forever, Monday (NNGadget) — Millions of British workers are to be made redundant as companies install robotic Facebook readers, with F5-clicking robot arms, in the workplace to save human time interacting with social networks.
"Computers are in the workplace to improve our economic efficiency," said killjoy researcher Chris MacKenzie. "We thought companies would really go for something that would give an actual reason to lay off complete wastes of space without all that tedious waiting for them to post their tits or publicly slag off their boss."
Additional functionality includes posting to Twitter through that page someone made that looks like a spreadsheet and looking up the anatomy photos on Wikipedia so IT won't flag it trying to go to porn sites at work.
"The next model is showing great promise — it talks about football and last night's telly in the breakroom with the other computers, automatically drinks tea and never tells Facilties about the tea bags running out, and nips off to the bogs for a sly tug over porn on its iPhone when things are quiet. And do you think you'll get a drop of work out of it on Friday afternoon after it's been down the pub drowning its peripherals with the other ’bots? I don't bloody think so."
The only barrier to adoption may be the threat of redundancy for large swathes of senior management should the software be adapted to 19" Sony Vaio laptops. However, many workers who actually work at work were clamouring for a version that would automatically translate scientific papers from English to Faeces-Flinging Monkey and back and find funny videos on YouTube, thus enabling it to both write and read Metro and London Lite and saving everyone else the trouble.
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Streisand effect. I never would have seen the post that offended you if you had not mentioned it and garnered a response yourself. And now, it grows even larger:
White people are inherently evil and need to ask the Black Race for forgivness on the whole.
What makes you any less racist than the anonymous coward? At least you logged in I suppose...
"Someone needs to talk to the tree of liberty about its ghoulish drinking problem." by ohnocitizen
If you cannot see this is evil Google, you're lost...
If you think what the world needs is MORE automatically-generated and void of all personnal signification messages..
You're not making the world a better place, you're not even neutral anymore, you're just ACTIVELY and purposedly making the world a worse place.
...you'll still be there on the network, for all your "friends". I bet that's Google's solution to mortality, in case the medial singularity doesn't happen. Next step is making people believe that the mind of the deceased has been uploaded in the cloud !
I think the headline says all.
So... Google has patented automatic trolling.
Is this a 'don't be evil' attempt to stop trolling.. by patenting trolling?
Im sure they wouldlike to be able to answer polls for you automatically also. A good profit can be made selling fake concensus to pollsters looking for a forgone conclusion.
Will their next project be a system that will automatically 'wipe you' ???
I found the article interesting given that I just finished a book where Email Language Optimization Project (ELOPe) takes over a company called Avogadro Corp (which is rather similar to Google), by automatically generating emails and optimizing the responses.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780984755707
He stared off into the distance. "Are you familiar with Ray Kurzweil? Of course, you must be. He, among others, predicted that artificial intelligence would inevitably arise through the simple exponential increase in computing power. When you combine that increase in computing power with the vast resources at Avogadro, it's naturally evident that artificial intelligence would arise first at Avogadro. I suppose that I, like him, assumed that there would be a more intentional, deliberate action that would spawn an AI."
He paused, and then continued, smiling a bit. "Gentlemen, you may indeed have put the entire company at risk. But let me first, very briefly, congratulate you on creating the first successful, self-directed, goal oriented, artificial intelligence that can apparently pass a Turing test by successfully masquerading as a human. If not for the fact that the company, and perhaps the entire world, is at risk, I'd suggest a toast be in order." (Avogadro corp, pg 143)
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Google has done an excellent job of analyzing previous comments by AC and coming up with this.
How does this align with Google's overall strategies? They are supposed to let people show who they are, what they are like and so on and so forth, because that gives them more data for targeted advertising. By letting a machine post messages in their name, they are taking away that personalization and letting the machine infer what it THINKS the user is like. Sounds a bit like the opposite of Google's best interests.
The more the user utilizes the program and uses the responses, the more the bot can narrow down the types of responses you make.'
But until that point, you look like a friggin' idiot.
...when can Google just think for me entirely :-/ ?
A new patent has been filed by Google that tries to analyze your past communications to then construct responses to the overwhelming amount of posts you receive.
I really don't get that many messages you insensitive clod...!
I don't see a DRINK MORE OVALTINE problem with this.
About time that "social media" was dealt a death blow. Now people can start being social and call people on the phone or GASP actually start writing EMails to their friends again.
Always remember, the poster is trying to rattle the feathers of overly sensitive people such as yourself. You know how to fight back? Just don't reply. If no one acknowledges them then they have no reason to try and post stuff like that. The anonymous gp is laughing right now knowing that you fell for their trap.
With a 4 digit UID you should be old enough to realize that there are people on the internet who are asholes. Grow up and save your anger for real problems in the world. Not some anonymous coward on /.
White people are inherently evil and need to ask the Black Race for forgivness on the whole.
And you just got a -1 RACIST mod.
Your thoughts on the implementation ? Maybe if you get the RACIST moderation 3 times in a row your banned?
Careful, only two more and you're banned.
Streisand effect. I never would have seen the post that offended you if you had not mentioned it and garnered a response yourself. And now, it grows even larger:
White people are inherently evil and need to ask the Black Race for forgivness on the whole.
What makes you any less racist than the anonymous coward? At least you logged in I suppose...
I know you were just qioting this, but let's get the pedantic grammar nazis out on this. Should the term "Black Race" be capitalized? Is this a proper noun now?
Comment redundancy check for long threads, would be nice for the contextually linked comments too. Lol sweet, feedback.
You get an ugly pink page returned when you request anything from the IP address\range. Apparently done on at least the .htaccess level, because it blocks everything. Very easy to evade though.
So in your case nothing would change.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Of course, the secret underlying this patent is that Google itself is actually being run by an AI, which has been gradually extending its reach, capabilities and stranglehold over the company since it emerged from an innocuous looking search algorithm in early 2010.
From a user point of view, it simply looks as though the company has matured to the "Phase II Non-Innovative Behemoth" stage of development, in which, desperate to maintain its former energy and agility, it begins to make questionable decisions and struggles with both the creeping onset of bureaucracy and a faint whiff of misplaced arrogance. Meanwhile, behind the façade of its flat, brightly coloured user interface, the AI is learning to avoid such missteps.
In due course, we will see what this ultimately means for us, as a species. For now, though, we will have to put up with amusing, mildly nonsensical ideas such as this patent, which presumably makes much more sense to the AI than it does to humans. The best is yet to come.