Talk to the City is an open source analytical tool developed by the AI Objectives Institute (AOI). The tool aims to improve collective discussion and decision-making and is specifically designed to facilitate dialogue with communities, such as cities.
tool overview
. Talk to the City” collects data from different sources, such as Twitter tweets and Polis results, and presents it as a visualization map. This allows visualization of different opinions and clusters of discussions and facilitates dialogue.
Data Clustering
. This tool clusters data using a technique called BERTopic, which uses HDBSCAN and UMAP to find clusters of different densities. This allows for a more stable clustering of the data and robust results with respect to the choice of parameters.
Experiments and applications
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- AI and Copyright: An experiment was conducted to analyze and visualize public comments on AI and copyright collected by the Agency for Cultural Affairs through “Talk to the City.
- We did it in May 2024.
- Public Comment on AI and Copyright
- We did it in May 2024.
- UN IGF Kyoto Conference: October 2023 Internet Governance Forum Kyoto 2023
- Audrey Tang introduced Talk to the City
- [/plurality-japanese/Audrey Tang Remarks in Plurality Seoul](https://scrapbox.io/plurality-japanese/Audrey Tang Remarks in Plurality Seoul)
- I touch on this lightly in this video.
- Taiwan’s Same-Sex Marriage Debate: An attempt is also being made to report on Taiwan’s same-sex marriage debate in “Talk to the City”.
- Tokyo Gubernatorial Election 2024
anderssandberg Talk to the City originally was conceived of by Peter Eckersley in a discussion we had about using AI to elicit preferences from large populations. I am happy to see what it has grown up into. “Talk to the City” was originally conceived by Peter Eckersley in a discussion about using AI to elicit preferences from large numbers of people. Glad to see what it has grown into.
nishio Talk to the City was used in a special program by Nippon TV regarding an upcoming election, where live questions were asked to incumbent politicians. “Talk to the City” was used in NTV’s upcoming special program on the election, in which live questions were posed to incumbent politicians.
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