After reading a geeky book, my step-dad learned about IBM Watson’s Personality Insights.
Personality Insights extracts and analyzes a spectrum of personality attributes to help discover actionable insights about people and entities, and in turn guides end users to highly personalized interactions. The service outputs personality characteristics that are divided into three dimensions: the Big 5, Values, and Needs. While some services are contextually specific depending on the domain model and content, Personality Insights only requires a minimum of 3500+ words of any text.
Since he doesn’t have 3500 words just sitting out there online, he grabbed some of my blog posts and put Watson’s Personality Insights to the test. The results are kind of eerie.
[pullquote align=”full” cite=”” link=”” color=”” class=”” size=””] You are inner-directed.
You are energetic: you enjoy a fast-paced, busy schedule with many activities. You are empathetic: you feel what others feel and are compassionate towards them. And you are calm-seeking: you prefer activities that are quiet, calm, and safe.
You are motivated to seek out experiences that provide a strong feeling of efficiency.
You consider achieving success to guide a large part of what you do: you seek out opportunities to improve yourself and demonstrate that you are a capable person. You are relatively unconcerned with tradition: you care more about making your own path than following what others have done. [/pullquote]
I wanted to see if the results were consistent. I pulled my own selection of blog posts to see how Watson really thought of me.
Posts used:
- Off Contract: Cutting The Cord
- Business Challenges For The Millennial Generation
- Am I A Startup Guy?
- Just Wiggle The Mouse (this one generated a lot of discussion on Facebook)
- Stuck In An Idea Rut
- First Date
Results:
[pullquote align=”full” cite=”” link=”” color=”” class=”” size=””] You are inner-directed.
You are energetic: you enjoy a fast-paced, busy schedule with many activities. You are empathetic: you feel what others feel and are compassionate towards them. And you are calm-seeking: you prefer activities that are quiet, calm, and safe.
You are motivated to seek out experiences that provide a strong feeling of efficiency.
You are relatively unconcerned with taking pleasure in life: you prefer activities with a purpose greater than just personal enjoyment. You value achieving success a bit more: you seek out opportunities to improve yourself and demonstrate that you are a capable person. [/pullquote]
I think I prefer the first version but they’re both accurate.
Have 3500 words or more? Run your own analysis: http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/ibmwatson/developercloud/personality-insights.html