Now, let's move to another interesting topic—that of personality.
With the Watson Personality Insights service, you can garner insight into the personality of anyone by using anything that they wrote. Before we get deeper into this tool, let's take a moment to deconstruct what this means.
Psychologists have known for a long time that you can infer someone's personality traits based off of the way they write. Not what they write, but how they write. The way you structure your sentences and paragraphs, and the verbiage you choose—these introduce subtle hints or clues as to what certain personality traits of yours could be. As humans, it's very difficult to understand these sorts of patterns, because they're very complex. However, for computers, analyzing millions of sentences and paragraphs to correlate them with personality traits is definitely plausible. Inference can then be done in a very...