Our Projects
Artificially Intelligent Opinion Polling
Roberto Cerina and Ray Duch
The Talking to Machines initiative aims to revist how we conduct large scale experimental research. We believe that many of the key elements of experimental design and implementation can be enhanced by AI. Measuring the attitudes and behaviors of participants in these studies is a typical outcome variable in randomized control trials. An on-going research project explores how AI can radically change public-opinion research by providing researchers with a general methodology to make representative inference from cheap, high-frequency, highly unrepresentative samples.
Ghana Wave II Synthetic RCT
Ray Duch and Piotr Kotlarz
The Talking to Machines project is exploring how to leverage AI to enhance large scale randomized control trials. The Ghana Wave II trial, which is on-going, is an opportunity to explore whether the decisions of synthetic subjects, who have been assigned to specific treatment arms, are informative. In this essay we have described the implementation of a synthetic trial that parallels the real human trial this is currently on-going. Once the human trial is completed and the data analyzed, we are proposing to benchmark the treatment effects from synthetic subjects that we have presented in this essay, with those generated from the trial using human subjects.