Ron Schenone

Intel’s Firefox Extension Called ‘Dispute Finder’

Posted by on Jun 20, 2009 | 4 Comments

Intel is testing a Firefox extension called ‘Dispute Finder’, which claims to determine if claims are BS or not. According to the Intel labs site, they claim that the claims made by others can be disputed by readers and both views on the subject are presented. Though this would seem to be a valuable tool, there is always the possibility that people can shade the truth when presenting their opinions.

According to the blurb on the Intel site, it states that:

The Dispute Finder Firefox Extension highlights disputed claims on web pages you browse and shows you evidence for alternative points of view. Watch the Videos to learn more.
Use this web interface to tell Dispute Finder what snippets to highlight and what evidence to present for alternative viewpoints. You can create a new disputed claim, mark new instances of a claim on the web, and add evidence that supports or opposes a claim.
For more information go to Intel’s site to view the video’s and see what you think.
Comments welcome.

Dispute Finder site.

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  • Ryan Farmer

    So if you load the Focus on the Family site your browser overloads and causes the computer to explode. Am I right? :)

  • Bill Meisel

    Kinect is the most difficult speech recognition task, talking at a distance, often with sound effects in the background. That it works at all is a breakthrough. More generally, speech recognition has matured to handle very difficult problems. For example, almost every medical report today dictated is processed by speech recognition, with accuracy approaching 99% for some specialties. How accurate would you be if you were transcribing, “A synovectomy was done. Remnants of the menisci and anterior cruciate ligament were excised. Osteophytes were removed. Using the Intermedics instrument, a hole was made in the intercondylar notch of the femur, followed by insertion of the intramedullary rod” (from a real medical report). If you used dictation on your PC, it would adapt to your Scottish accent, and get more accurate as you corrected its errors. Speech recognition on mobile phones is becoming a competitive necessity, and accounts in part for Android’s rise in market share relative to Apple’s iPhone. In the last monthly issue of my newsletter, Speech Strategy News, I mentioned 155 companies impacted by advanced speech technology, mostly speech recognition. The lack of recognition of the breakthrough in this technology results in part from anecdotal comments like yours that don’t reflect much true investigation of the state of the art.