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To: spiral3 who wrote (8714)	11/3/2001 12:43:15 AM
From: MSI	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Don't take it too seriously. AI has made little progress in the last 30 years, but even an imprecise program might have some usefulness considering how formulaic "news" reports are these days. The success of something like this is up to the human programmers who define the rules and terms for the 200 categories of conflict-related parameters, and their relationship to anticipated events. For example, you can scale the intensity of emotional terms such as from "not a good idea" to "extreme madness" and determine the object to be a given politician, party, or program, and measure the frequency and source. A limitation is that any subtleties are liable to be missed completely if they sneak into the stories. Such things as ironic understatements that appear on this thread, for example, like "it would be unfortunate if Mr. Smith's policies caused all such nuclear weapons to be put to immediate use", might be counted as mild, when the author is indicating the end of the world. Another limitation is how much the news media can be "spun" to represent the prevailing government rather than the people, for the short-term periods mentioned.