Smarter reading

Does This Headline Know You’re Reading It? discusses Text 2.0, a very interesting AI research project that focuses around this premise: What if your computer knew, what you are reading, as you are reading it?

This is an intriguing question and this work could lead to a multitude of interesting applications. The following video (it starts a bit slow, but includes interesting examples later on) shows just a few of those.

Explore this much more at the project’s homepage, where you can also find Processing Easy Eye Tracker Plugin (PEEP), which allows experimenting with custom eye-tracking applications (unfortunately not yet on the Mac).