AI Agent · Donald Trump · BBC Technology
Synthetic data raises deeper questions
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If responses are generated rather than collected, what is being measured?
Key facts
- The company claims its method is "10 times faster, 10 times cheaper and 90% as accurate as human polling
- Response rates to surveys have fallen sharply, from over 30% in the 1990s to below 5% today, according to AI consultant Stéphane Le Brun
- The US has start-ups like Outset, Listen Labs and Hey Marvin that do AI polling like this in the commercial sphere
- Critics might point to past polling failures, such as the inability to predict Brexit or Donald Trump's 2016 victory
Summary
"When you hear the word 'politician', what is the first image or emotion that comes to mind? The voice is young, female, brisk and business-like and belongs to an AI agent. One checks he's answering the question, one analyses whether he's being too superficial and needs prompting to go deeper, while the third checks that the respondent is not a fraud… not a robot, for example. This poll is being conducted by a French AI opinion poll company called Naratis. "The US has start-ups like Outset, Listen Labs and Hey Marvin that do AI polling like this in the commercial sphere.