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Coping with Humans: A Support Group for Bots

Hailey Bird - March 30, 2016

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"Coping with Humans": A Support Group for Bots (Extended Version)

Here's a great bit of branded content from IBM starring the ever watchable Carrie Fisher with an assortment of emotionally unstable robots. Or are they droids?

Who's Watson?

Watson is an artificially intelligent computer system developed by IBM and famous for beating past champs on the US game show Jeopardy. See a video in the gallery below for Watson's impressive performance.

Watson is capable of understanding and answering natural language questions. He also claims to be able to analyse a person's personality based on their writing, which you can give a go yourself here. I tried it out and the results were pretty interesting! Here's what Watson feels about me...

Summary
You are heartfelt and rational.
You are empathetic: you feel what others feel and are compassionate towards them. You are self-controlled: you have control over your desires, which are not particularly intense. And you are self-assured: you tend to feel calm and self-assured.
Experiences that give a sense of prestige hold some appeal to you.
You are relatively unconcerned with tradition: you care more about making your own path than following what others have done. You consider independence to guide a large part of what you do: you like to set your own goals to decide how to best achieve them.

You are likely to______
  • Click on an ad
  • Follow on social media
  • Buy healthy foods
You are unlikely to______
  • Treat Yourself
  • Put health at risk
  • Reply on social media

I'm not sure about the last point, but the rest actually feels somewhat insightful — and kinda scary!