Saturday, October 15, 2011

Agent Smith and Automation

I like Google News very much.
I use it very much.
I also very much like the changes they are making nowadays.

I also believe, I know a thing or two about automation to make a comment on it.
At the same time, I am of the belief, Never send a machine to do a man's job as against the Agent Smith in The Matrix and the very best folks who taught me the automation [Agent Smith: Never send a human to do a machine's job]

My belief applies to way too many job functions and one among them is running a news site. A news site has to be run by a man but not by the machine.

In Google News, I have seen wrongly placed photos across news snippets. News at wrong sections i.e news about health in entertainment and all that still the below picture is the ultimate thing i have ever come across.


This where the links take you, Here and here

Are you with me or with Agent Smith?

4 comments:

Ramesh said...

With you obviously. Agent Snityh, whoever he is,stands no patch on thw wise philosopher, Zeno.

Havings said that, I believe if the placement of news was manual, even more bloopers would arise. Why news should never be automated is simply that a perspective and dimension that a man can bring, a machine can't.

Appu said...

Ha Ha
So true. Nowadays the papers are horrible to read!

RamNarayanS said...

Google News is a news aggregator, to be technically correct. Software by nature is buggy (otherwise, your primary skill would have no use :-D :-D) மன்னிச்சு உட்டுருங்க

Appu said...

Just applying my primary skill :)