Check out this #election related side project from our Head of Data Yiing Chau Mak!
I don't usually post about politics, but since the U.S. elections are coming soon and I'm an AI engineer, I decided to create a fun little side project. What if we could ask the two presidential candidates anything, and compare their responses? Given that they've only had one debate to date, it might be interesting to see how their views line up (or not!) on various issues. I built this as a social experiment because I’m fascinated by how AI has become such a regular part of our lives, and how much it is impacting our public discourse. How well can we predict what people might say, given what they have said in the past? I fine-tuned Gemini 1.5 flash with some synthetically-generated Q&A training data (based on a collection of their bios, campaign websites, and recent speeches), and did some quick prompt engineering and RAG. (This needs to be really cheap, since this is a personal project.) The results are both insightful and a bit surprising, and can be hilarious if you ask the right questions! The usual disclaimer for AI-generated content applies -- responses are AI generated and may not be representative of the candidates' views, please check facts yourself, etc. I've added the link as a comment -- have fun! --- P.S. I was also very tempted to create voice responses, but this was a quick side project meant to take just a few hours... and I don't want to suffer the fate that OpenAI had re: Scarlett Johansson.