Working with data expert Alex Waddington, we used our own data on the manifestos and policies and trained the tool, which we believe is more accurate, relevant and up to date than if you were to ask the same questions of standard GPT, quicker and more user friendly than if you were to look for the information via an internet search, and less at risk of deliberate political misinformation than if you were to look on social media.
We undertook in-house testing before releasing the GPT, trialling a number of training approaches, and different presentations and formatting of the Lodestone dataset that powers it. The version we have released for wider external testing has value and illustrates the power of Generative AI for political and policy insight, but it is also very much a project in development and to be iterated.
As with all Generative AIs, it can be incredibly powerful and useful as a tool. But it can also make errors and hallucinate, which we have observed during testing. We are releasing the tool for wider external testing now, and we are inviting you to take part in this process, as we want to hear more people’s feedback, so we can further improve the tool, and because we are setting up a network of people working in public affairs who are interested in developing AI tools for public affairs, and up-skilling in AI.
We hope that by the next general election tech developments and the public affairs industry’s understanding of AI will mean it is possible to create public affairs AI tools that are quick, easy to use, accurate, up to date, that don’t hallucinate and do add significant value to public affairs services.
We’re calling ‘Lodestone AI Policy Pulse 1.0’ as when we asked the tool what we should call it, this is what it said its name should be.
Please email any feedback to f.ol@lodestonecommunications.com and please let me know if you would like to join the network we are setting up of people working in public affairs who are interested in developing AI tools for public affairs, and up-skilling in AI.
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