TalkBack Central: Filtering hate mail: Asinine?

I can smell the lawsuits already!

Such "technology" is simply Big Brother on crack. It wants to control all, but is so brain damaged that it can't see laterally -- Only literally. It's one-dimensional; it does what it is asked to say. IBM can make a supercomputer play chess, but the computer is still logical and can only follow instructions. It CANNOT, by design, think or act like, a human. Humans are so complex and the English language is about 20 times more complicated. Therefore this project is beyond asinine and should be pitied by all who are aware of its existence!

Real life example of this stupid technology in action: I use a third party Web site to host a forum dedicated to 1960s TV shows. They use a similar technology to IBM's new development. One person wanted to talk about "The Dick Van Dyke Show" and nearly got kicked out by the wretched forum because the forum's software blindly felt that it was correct in thinking that "D" and "D" were slang for other interesting terms! Wrong! Off by a long shot! The censorship protocols can't be disabled and I'm a step away from ditching their service because of it. Or I'll tell people to "t y p e l i k e t h i s" so the dumb site can't figure out what's going on. The computer cannot see "t y p e" because it thinks that's just four letters and not a word. Big whoop. Or this: ?sdrawkcab etirw uoy naC The computer won't know what to go do with itself.

Computers are great for information, but try to replace the human factor with them and the only thing you can do is call yourself "Big Dummy".

IBM is protecting their technology for two reasons.
1.If actually successful, IBM could make a lot of money and since society is geared toward people making money rather than people helping each other just for the sake of society, bingo. IBM will make millions if not billions.
2. If this ridiculous attempt at supreme control fails -- and it will! -- IBM won't want to pander it off to anybody nor would they want to parade it around for all to see because they're too embarrassed.

David P. Cole is a PC technician living in the Twin Cities metropolitan area (Minnesota). David also does freelance network consulting, audio restoration, and web site design as moonlighting jobs. David states, "As my comments I had placed on ZDNet suggest, I'm passionate about everything I do in my life! Otherwise why bother to live?"