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Google Wants To Write Your Social Media Responses For You

Posted by samzenpus on from the taking-the-words-out-of-my-mouth dept.

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.'"

3 of 163 comments (clear)

  1. Hey, wait a minute! by PopeRatzo · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Please, google, leave me something to do besides shop.

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    You are welcome on my lawn.
  2. Re:So where's the fuckin' source code? by edibobb · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If they get to patent this garbage, we should disband the USPTO.

  3. Mechanical Monk. by Truth_Quark · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.