2023-05-19 Relationship between LLM and Plurality

  • LT at [LLM Meetup Tokyo 2
    • Since I have been focusing on Plurality-related issues for the past month (Plurality Tokyo - Manazuru 2023-05-13), I would like to talk about the relationship between LLM and Plurality.

What is Plurality?

  • The concept proposed by Audrey Tang, Minister of Digital Agency of Taiwan, et al.
  • Concerns that linking AI to government will increase the power of government
  • We need to consider using AI to make the people more powerful to balance the situation.
  • This direction is called “Plurality” using “Plural (plural)” as a synonym for “Singular (singular)” in the “Singularity” that is supposed to be brought about by AI.

Technical Components of Plurality

  • There are several, but it’s impossible for LT to explain them all, so I’ll just mention one.
    • broad listening :
    • Enables “broad listening,” where millions of people can hear the essence extracted from the distribution of opinions of their peers, and can enhance democratic careful deliberation on a large scale.

  • For example, if you have a decent discussion with 100 people on Twitter, if you wrote 1 tweet your opinion, of course you should read 99 tweets
    • Are you doing this? You’re not doing it.
    • Why aren’t we doing it? Because it’s too much of a burden for flesh and blood.
    • Then let’s support that with digital technology!

concrete implementation

  • Often used as a component Polis.
    • Lower the burden of “listening to many people’s opinions” by clustering “people with similar opinions.”
    • This Polis does not use LLM.
  • Stanford Online Deliberation Platform is doing [Moderation Automation
    • Natural language processing is the future
  • This is an area where there could be interesting developments using LLM in the future!

Circumstances unique to Japan - Broad Listening is Important in Japan, Where Air Rules

  • Erin Meyer’s research shows that Japanese culture is such that “it is better for everyone to build consensus than for the boss of an organization to make top-down decisions.”
    • Many want to “involve themselves in the decision-making process.”
    • But many people don’t speak for themselves.
    • You don’t speak your mind, but you want your opinion to be taken into account.
      • Why Japanese People!
  • Need to design a system that takes care of this Japanese cultural background.
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    • Each person’s statement is first heard by the LLM
    • Anonymize and summarize it and feed it back to everyone.
    • (If I had more time, I would have liked to get to the point of actually building and demonstrating this, but I couldn’t make it in time.)

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