Synthetic public opinion polling: AI personas don't always change their minds like real voters do
A voter surveyed in October may give a different answer by January. An AI persona might not, depending on how it's built.
A voter surveyed in October may give a different answer by January. An AI persona might not, depending on how it's built.
Political science
18 hours ago
0
16
Much is being made of a record-strength El Niño event that could well spell a drier, windier summer for the north and east of New Zealand. But, as a major new assessment shows, it is forming against a backdrop of warming ...
Environment
18 hours ago
0
13
Preliminary results from an ongoing long-term survey conducted by William & Mary's Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS) suggest that an average year class of young-of-year striped bass was produced in the Virginia ...
Ecology
19 hours ago
0
9
After a cyclospora outbreak and recalls of imported beef over the summer, a recent Gallup poll found that Americans' confidence in food safety has fallen to a record low, and consumers may be wondering how foodborne illness ...
Molecular & Computational biology
20 hours ago
0
10
A technology developed at The University of Queensland allowing scientists to observe how disease-related proteins behave inside living neurons will be used to advance early drug discovery for neurodegenerative diseases. ...
Bio & Medicine
20 hours ago
0
42
The public K-12 school system in the United States has become pervasively shaped by standardized testing.
Education
21 hours ago
0
11
If you've ever created a snowflake by folding, cutting and unfolding a piece of paper, you've practiced the art of kirigami. Like origami, kirigami has inspired innovations far beyond the elementary school classroom, with ...
Cell & Microbiology
22 hours ago
0
30
Cells constantly recycle proteins and other cellular components. But how do they ensure that the right cargo ends up in the right recycling vesicle—one of the cell's transport carriers? A team at the University of Basel has ...
Cell & Microbiology
22 hours ago
0
6
As governments prepare to gather in Yerevan, Armenia, this week for the U.N. Biodiversity Conference (COP17), new research identifies 13% of Earth's land area as hotspots for biodiversity conservation, highlighting where ...
Environment
22 hours ago
0
18
As climate change is expected to increase the risks associated with extreme rainfall and flooding, managing floods requires approaches beyond conventional infrastructure such as dams and reservoirs.
Earth Sciences
22 hours ago
0
10