Liar Liar, Software on Fire
TechCrunch reports that a new software will be put to the test Thursday night during the Biden/Palin debate. RealScoop purports to be able to detect whether a candidate is lying or not, simply by taking note of the speaker’s vocal inflections and patterns and performing 1,000 calculations a second to determine whether what is being spoken is “true” or not. The report didn’t mention whether the software can detect subtle vocal variations that occur when a person employs sarcasm or forgets their train of thought, etc. Overall, I’m not going to be monitoring this technology during the debate, but I might check in afterwards to see what it reports. I wonder if things like this will prove more popular in future elections, although I doubt it. Results of polygraph testing are still, to my knowledge, not admissible in court. I doubt this technology will find relevance in other state business.
October 7th, 2008 at 1:30 pm
While not admissible in court, polygraphs are still used as “investigative tools” by police and federal agencies, and are used in every serious background screening by government agencies. While often inconclusive, there seems to be some utility there…