In a rather surprising move, Japan’s Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications is going to earmark 300 million yen in next year’s to for an online lie-detection solution!
I am not exactly sure how it is going to work and what is the real idea behind it. However, it appears to me as if the government is going to decide whether the person taking the test is lying or not by his answers to a few questions and then maybe try to read his psychology or whatever.
Some of the questions may look like:
a) Is this company analysis on the mark?
b) Is this a natural-sounding description of the political situation within Lebanon?
c) Are the functions of this overseas electrical appliance described accurately in this auction listing?
According to this article (Via Slashdot Japan):
They note that key hurdles will be whether they can find reliable internet-based sources of information related to a search, and develop technologies that can accurately assess meaning and provide high-level machine translation, amongst other things.I must stop here as this is fatally stretching the limits of my imagination. However, I am sure that the Japanese being far superior to me in their thinking capabilities will finally be able to produce something like this with a fair bit of accuracy. Until that comes out, I would be thinking.
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