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Talk to the City is an open-source LLM interface for improving collective deliberation and decision-making by analyzing detailed, qualitative data. It aggregates responses and arranges similar arguments into clusters.
What makes Talk to the City unique is the combination of the following features:
It leverages the power of frontier LLMs to analyze large datasets
It is designed to summarize human opinions, as opposed to just factual data
It automatically prepares summaries, visualizations and reports
It is developed as a non-profit initiative
| Organization Type: | Non-profit / charity / foundation |
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| Status: | Active |
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| Claimed Status: | Claimed |
| Founded: | 2023 |
| Parent Organization: | AI • Objectives • Institute |
| Open Source: | Yes |
| Open Source License: | https://github.com/AIObjectives/talk-to-the-city-reports/blob/main/scatter/LICENSE?utm_source=chatgpt.com |
| Who's it used by?: | Notre Dame University https://talktothecity.org/report/deliberative-technologies-in-polarized-contexts_anon |
| Number of employees: | 8 |
| Last Modified: | 12/18/2024 |
| Added on: | 12/6/2023 |
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Evidence of this project's impact:"
“Ten years ago, the vTaiwan scope was limited, because stakeholder groups needed to adapt to the technology at the time. Today, this is being bridged with the advent of language models that can adapt to their needs. Back in 2014, it was impossible with the capacity of g0v contributors to interview a mini public of people and aggregate their ideas while preserving the full nuance. (Source, 2024-12 )
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