"To understand Trump's tweets"
Does anyone?
Time for my morning covfefe I think.
Computer eggheads from Italy's University of Bari have developed what they claim is "the first open-source toolkit for emotion recognition from text." Developers of Twitter bots, among others, often employ sentiment analysis to evaluate whether text expresses positive or negative feelings. Google engineer Max Braun, for …
Here' a simple training guide for the EmoTxt.
- oh my god - love
- ooh my god - joy
- OH MY GOD - anger
- ohh my god - sadness
- oh god - fear
- Oh My God - surprise
When you simplified them, they will be
- omg - love
- omg - joy
- OMG - anger
- omg - sadness
- omg - fear
- OMG - surprise
Ok, maybe we should have started with something easier...
IF user operating printer: EMOTION = Anger
IF printer working: EMOTION = Surprise
IF user @ pub: EMOTION = Joy
IF user interfacing with online comments: EMOTION = Sadness
IF user is cowering before AI death machine: EMOTION = Fear
THEN computer EMOTION = Joy
ELSE EMOTION = Love
Just no. Recognition of emotion is a human ability, based on the ability of the person recognising it to feel emotion themselves. It's not yet another fricking terra nullius for techers to try to annex, for no purpose except to sell ways of making money to people who already have money, or to impose a spurious, aggregated "reality" of general sentiment onto human beings.
I'd love to let this "AI" loose on some Nietzsche. Or Saki. Or Swift. See how it rates them on its reductive, one-dimensional scale.
"Google engineer Max Braun, for example, earlier this year released code for a bot designed to buy and sell the stock of public companies mentioned in President Trump's tweets, based on the sometimes correct premise that Trump's praise or condemnation will move the stock price."
- and in buying or selling shares, the twitter bot moves the share price, just like any other trading that occurs. Maybe I should write a twitter bot to act on the share price movement caused by his twitter bot? What could go wrong?