NELL is a computer system that learns over time to read the web by making associations between words/phrases, and a limited set of categories. NELL regularly uses twitter (
cmunell) to elicit feedback, and let the world know what it's thinking. While many of it's 500K beliefs may be
truthy, I think it got these two half-right:
I think "self-reference" is an ()
I think "non-degree-seeking student" is an ()
NELL regularly adds and removes hypotheses, in an attempt to improve its confidence in the associations it has made. I wonder what it will find is funny.
