1) A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
2) A robot must obey orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3) A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
- Three Laws of Robotics
Robots have come and taken notice of Swivel. With their help, a swiveler can have a much easier time in extracting data from the world and feeding it into Swivel. I'm talking about the robots of OpenKapow like the Netflix rental history bot that I created.
Although the robot did not run into any moral dillemas, crimes of intrigue, or black hole generating end of world doomsday devices, it does snappily retrieve my netflix rental history and output it in csv format. Then using the Swivel Upload Bot, they faithfully aided me in the pleasure of viewing my rental history in swivel (don't you love it when robots work together?):
You can use this bot too! Just go here and enter the following in the BotURL field (replacing the username and password):
http://service.openkapow.com/tao/netflixrentalhistory?Username=kalendae79%40yahoo.com&Password=XXXXXX
then fill out the form and submit the form and VOILA you will get to see your rental history graphed in its full glory. Then don't forget to compare it to your work productivity graph =)
As OpenKapow and Swivel both mature more, get more powerful, and become easier to use, I shudder at the wonderful limitless potential!
The era of the robots is upon us and I am glad they found a way to Swivel.
Update: If you are trying the robot out on your netflix account, make sure you look at your uploaded dataset and make sure it's not showing your password. (the title of the dataset, the source, and the source url fields could have it. all those fields are editable)
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