Thursday, December 19, 2013

Reddit Challenge #37

Reddit user BiffHardCheese submits: "Android Divorce Court." This is a second interpretation, in the form of a news brief.
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Have you been looking for a solution to your marital problems? Droid does!

Zyngaza Software has announced a brand new app for Android devices called the 'Divorce Court' app. This application has the full support of the popular Divorce Court TV show and was developed in tandem with several of the judges and executive producers (in the case of Judge Reinhold it was both) of Divorce Court, and will make use of the most advanced Android software. It is designed solely to run on quad-core processors, running Android 4.6 Mr. Goodbar.

The application is unique in that it claims to be able to help couples solve their marital issues without having to resort to such methods as arbitration, litigation or conversation. The app is remarkably simple to use and the download is pretty small, too. When you open the app, the first thing you see is a remarkably realistic digital version of Judge Judy's head.

When she first speaks it is with such authority that it is almost frightening. After asking your name, birth date, address and social security number, the app then requires you to agree to an incredibly long and complicated user agreement. Once you've signed away your life rights to a producer in Santa Monica, Judge Judy's head then begins to grill you about the status of your relationship.

"She" speaks to each party individually, registering responses though the front-facing camera of your Android device and using advanced super-computing code to think of Judge Judy's next overly-insulting question, aggressive retort or witty comeback on the fly. The technology was licensed from IBM, who had developed the technology for Watson, their Jeopardy-playing supercomputer.

After hearing and responding to both side's cases, the app processes the information and routes it through a complicated judging algorithm leaked to Zangaza by Edward Snowden. Zangaza claims Snowden told them the software was used to simulate rulings in secret government courts when no real judge would agree to such absurd constitutional violations. The algorithm claims to have a "good enough, okay" success rate.

Since its release this morning, marriages being solved with the app by the several. There was even talk among early beta testers that some of them would be willing to pay as much as $1 for the app if it went live. The app is currently free.

Technoying's rating: 
7.8/14.3


1 comment:

  1. I think it's funny you would interpret it this way. Obviously it's a totally different interpretation than what the comment had in mind, but I like the unique approach.

    You could've made it sound more like the blurbs in the appstore for apps though. Little verbose

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