Category Archives: Social Media

Fake social media profiles: My own experience with Facebook

Just read this blog in the economist, stating how many social media fans/ followers etc are actually fake machine generated accounts. The Blog mentions that Mitt Romney gained 17% followers in a day and interestingly, a friend tweeted about Mitt … Continue reading

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Facebook ads impact is just more ‘measurable’ than TV ads, not necessarily ‘effective’

They have been talking for a while about the death of the 30 second commercial. And social media were not the first technologies that inspired such claims.Yet, the size of Facebook with its tightly connected ‘anatomy’ has made these claims … Continue reading

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Words of the mouse can mislead: Google Translator exposed through more fundamental evidence

My previous post got advocates of artificial intelligence to accuse me of making arguments against Google Translator (GT) based on proper nouns or misspelled words. These they contended made GT confound translation with transliteration in that particular case. However, I … Continue reading

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Artificial Intelligence May Only Take Us So Far: The Abject Failure of Google Translator

I like to experiment with language services (Hindi versions) of Google Products. Granted that I don’t need to do this, since everyone I communicate with over email is perhaps as much or more fluent in English than in Hindi. So … Continue reading

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