Taran Rampersad

Gifted.

...Clicking through the links revealed (as did a subsequent editor’s note and clarification by Axios) that the public opinion poll was a computer simulation run by the artificial intelligence start-up Aaru. No people were involved in the creation of these opinions...

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/opinion/ai-polling.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Y1A.G9KQ.wfaQAksV2ym_&smid=url-share

#ai #polls #siliconsampling

Opinion | It’s Called Silicon Sampling, and It’s Going to Ruin Public Opinion Polling

Instead of navigating the obstacles to conduct polls with human respondents, pollsters are running A.I. simulations instead. Why?

The New York Times
Apr 6 at 12:19pmMastodon for Android
Show threadadamcrussell17h ago
@knowprose at one point AI and ML were, as academic fields, closely aligned with Statisics. I guess that is absolutely no longer the case!
Show threadTaran Rampersad17h ago
@adamcrussell It's still related whether they admit it or not. LOL