How Do You Make The Internet Smarter?
If you are Gabriel Ortiz and his team of engineers, you develop a system that filters away the meaningless drivel that many people tend to spam across the Internet in the form of illegible comments, undecipherable forum posts and, in general, what seems to be random keystrokes.
Ortiz's team is working on a system that, if installed on a site's server, would scan a user's comment or forum post and determine if it contained intelligent text or just something a lolcat might have chuffed up. If it determines the user's text to be the latter, it would prompt them to attempt to re-type their post or comment for something more akin to what a human would actually submit. They could keep trying to turn their cat's wandering across their keyboard into something that a person could actually read until they either give up in frustration (ideally) or manage to produce something resembling intelligence.
What a wonderful idea. I can't wait until this software becomes available. I may not be able to use it on this blog, but I know at some point in time it will be made into a Wordpress plug-in. I'm definitely switching platforms at that point. Regardless of whether it ever comes in a widget of some sort, there are plans to have a functional Firefox plug-in by the end of the year.
I know what you are all thinking, how can we make this wonderful product come about sooner? I'm glad you asked, because all you have to do is head over to stupidfilter.org and sign up there. They need real people to rank stupid comments to train their software filters. Be forewarned, there is a grammar test and a written question before you can be accepted to the team.
In the meantime, why not peruse some of the masters of literature that have found themselves in the database of over 225,000 comments that will eventually be ranked from 1 to 5 for stupidity at the randomized stupidity page. And where does one go to find 225,000 random stupid comments? YouTube, of course.
If you find a really good one, let me know... On second thought, don't post anything like that in my comments, please. :)
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