Can Androids Read The News?


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Home \| Computer Can Androids Read The News? By: Oleg, Posted on: 2007-07-10 Artificial intelligence, or AI, has come pretty far in the last few years - much more then anyone really expected it would - and yet somehow, we seem to be just as far from truly intelligent systems as we ever were. No doubt, the great author Isaac Asimov would be impressed with what we have managed to accomplish, especially considering how many of his predictions have come true. However, we still haven't got any positronic brains, or thinking machines such as he suggested. Nevertheless, despite the lack of intelligence with which our computers usually act, they do occasionally show human-like insights and actions. To give you one example, look at how robots can be created to browse the internet. Not physical robots, of course, but small programs that can go online and surf the web. Used most commonly be search engines, these little scripts can read pages almost as well as a human can. Although our computers remain unable to communicate through speech, and are physically very different from us, you could well argue that they are still able to read the news. As the internet grows, web spiders and surfing robots become ever more common, especially as the amount of data available make it more important then ever that we find some way to manage it and find what we are looking for. Programs can be created that allow not only searching the web, but also interaction with it. Meanwhile, although everyone who has a page wants people to visit it, for those of us who are running businesses online those visitors are truly essential. Particularly with sites such as forums or blogs, a huge volume of robots is a very bad thing. It is easy for a spammer to create a program that will log onto hundreds of forums, and post thousands of annoying messages. This is why it is vital that only humans can use the forms you provide. You can add little tags to your pages to ban robots, but of course, the robots you are worried about are hardly going to pay attention to this. So you need to find some way of preventing anyone who isn't human from accessing your site. So what is it that separates the man from the machine? Something that any human will be able to do, but no robot could? The answer, of course, is character recognition. Humans are easily able to read text, and can even do so if it has been altered- stretched slightly, if it changes colour, or even has a small line through it. Robots can't do this. This is known as a CAPTCHA, a Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart. All you have to do is install a basic script onto your website, which will generate the image, and block any robots from gaining access. It's hardly difficult to do, and well worth the effort for the trouble it will save weeding out annoying comments from your forum. So, can your computer read the news? Well, yes, as long as there isn't a CAPTCHA in the way. Unfortunately, it will be a while yet before any computers can truly be considered intelligent, and even longer before we see any real androids so I suppose I have to conclude with, no, robots really cannot read newspapers. Article Source: http://www.allthebestarticles.com Oleg is an expert on CAPTCHA design. Click to learn more about his revolutionary new CAPTCHA Plugin technology. Please Rate this Article Not yet Rated Click the XML Icon Above to Receive Computer Articles Via RSS! Additional Articles From - Home \| Computer Computer Hardware Preventive Maintenance Software - By : santosh Warcraft Omen In Wow - By : John Wiley Where To Go For PSP MP4 Movie Downloads - By : A R Thompson The Benefits of Moving Your Corporate Phones to VoIP - By : doug smith Web Accessibility: What You Should Know - By : Sean Doering How Computer Articles Help You Get The Most From Your Computer - By : Darren Callea Whats Wrong With World of Warcraft - By : Jack Lee Guide To Buy Cheap World Of Warcraft (WoW) Gold - By : Jack Lee	Attention Writers! Articles Needed! Sign Up for a free account or learn more. Featured Author Eileen McDargh Members Area Submit Articles Member Login Submission Guidelines Publishers/Webmasters Top Authors Most Popular Articles Ezine Notifications Article RSS Feeds Link to Us Privacy Policy Terms of Service Featured Websites Wedding Party Shoes Wedding Party Mall Sports and Concert Tickets Pet Gift Site Questions? Contact Us Vote For All The Best Articles.com at Best Directory TopSiteList Sponsored by Fitness Inform Vote For All The Best Articles.com at Top Article Directory List Top Sites Never Stare At A Blank Screen Again!

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