IBM Engineer Builds a Harry Potter Sorting Hat Using 'Watson' AI (thenextweb.com)

An anonymous reader writes: As America celebrates Father's Day, The Next Web reports on an IBM engineer who found a way to combine his daughters' interest in the Harry Potter series with an educational home technology project. Together they built a Hogwarts-style sorting hat -- which assigns its wearer into an appropriate residence house at the school of magic -- and it does it using IBM's cognitive computing platform Watson. "The hat uses Watson's Natural Language Classifier and Speech to Text to let the wearer simply talk to the hat, then be sorted according to what he or she says..." reports The Next Web. "Anderson coded the hat to pick up on words that fit the characteristics of each Hogwarts house, with brainy and cleverness going right into Ravenclaw's territory and honesty a recognized Hufflepuff attribute."
The hat's algorithm would place Stephen Hawking and Hillary Clinton into Ravenclaw, according to the article, while Donald Trump "was assigned to Gryffindor for his boldness -- but only with a 48 percent certainty."

The sorting hat talks, drawing its data directly from the IBM Cloud, and if you're interested in building your own, the IBM engineer has shared a tutorial online.

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Funny, you are so blind you assign the wrong one

[Texmaize]

Of the 3 listed, only Hillary has actually committed felony level crimes, and due to her guile and family power, will get away with it. She has sold state secrets and favors for campaign money, and then erased the evidence on private servers. She perjured herself about having no secret clearance emails on several occasions. She also let a US ambassador and several soldiers die, because it was politically favorable to do so in the midst of an election. If she had the influence of the average forum user, she would have been in prison with no questions asked. She personifies Slitherian, and not the good aspects of it either.

I am just....so sickened by this reflexive liberal bias in these forums. Most of you don't even adhere to the thoughts and beliefs with your own, fucking, ideology. You claim to be for free expression, but only when it agrees with you. You claim to care about women's issues, as long as it does not get in the way of winning an election. You say you are for fairness, then only hire people with the same ideology. You claim you love intellectual challenge, then only read from sources that have the same view, and shower pure, unadulterated and irrational hatred on anyone who deigns to poke a hole in your sacrosanct belief. You turn a blind eye to the sins of anyone who claims to be playing for your team, no matter what they do. You are exactly why the country's founders thought most people are too stupid, too lazy, and too ignorant to vote, because frankly, you are.

Re:Funny, you are so blind you assign the wrong on

[AK Marc]

She has sold state secrets and favors for campaign money,

Reagan paid Iran to kidnap Americans. But it's only bad when the Democrats do it, right?

Re:Funny, you are so blind you assign the wrong on

[hyades1]

Richard Nixon, Reagan, Bushes Senior and Junior...it really doesn't matter. When the person can be identified as both a Republican and a US President, you can automatically add a third title: War Criminal.