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Do Robots Read The News?

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Research into AI, otherwise known as Artificial Intelligence, has proceed at an incredible pace in the last century or so. However, we are still nearly as far as we ever were from creating the first truly functional android. I have no doubt that, had he lived to today, Isaac Asimov would be astonished although perhaps not surprised at the speed with which his stories have become reality. Unfortunately, tales of thinking machines and positronic brains remain nothing more then tales.

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.

So while androids may not walk and talk, you could say that they read the news. Web-spiders are becoming ever more prolific as the internet grows, and we find we need some way to easily search it. Unfortunately, not all use the spiders' powerful searching capabilities benignly.

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.

Having hundreds of robots running through your website is not just useless, but actively unhelpful, as it will make it impossible to tell just how many real humans you get as well as using up all your valuable bandwidth. Although you can put a file on your server to tell robots you do not wish them to access it, it is only the law abiding ones that will obey it, and these are not the problem.

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.

You simply install a small program onto your website, that will generate a small image containing text. The visitor then has to type into a small box what the text is (something like 2h49j usually) to prove that they are not a robot.

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.

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