The IBM Watson API is my new favorite toy. It’s a suite of natural language processing and analytics tools that make my chatbots look like retarded Teddy Ruxpins.
Using Watson, I made my own personality test. I fed it the contents of my blog, and it returned some data about my personality traits. Dr. Elaine interprets my blog personality as follows:
Here I feed it Marc Andreessen’s blog:
Here I gave Dr. Elaine the contents of George’s email correspondence. The analysis does not make a lot of sense, probably because Watson has not learned to detect sarcasm:
Dr. Elaine also analyzes Twitter feeds, so here’s @StartupLJackson.
And Donald Trump @realDonaldTrump.
Not bad.