Converge 2020 December 1-2, 2020 in Online

Pulling Back the Curtain on AI Polling

Extensive, high-profile polling misses during the recent U.S. election season have once again brought scrutiny to traditional polling methods.

Could AI provide more accuracy?

Polly, the AI Pollster, nailed several elections that traditional polling missed: UK's Brexit Referendum, Trump's surprise victory in 2016, and Canada's Liberal Minority government in 2019.
The latter was the source for the international documentary Margin of Error, which examined the future role AI will have in public opinion research and the anti-change pundits who are resisting this change with academic arguments that don't hold up to scrutiny.

In this presentation the kimono on Polly will open, revealing how AI actually works and confronting the fearmongers head on.

You will learn how:

• AI can account for online bias

• AI converts posts to votes

• AI determines demographics and location

 

Speaker(s)

  • Kenton White – Advanced Symbolics

    Co-founder & Chief Scientist, Advanced Symbolics

    Kenton has been working in the AI space since 2003, when he was co-founder and Chief Technology Officer for Distil Interactive. Distil Interactive used artificial intelligence to evaluate worker performance in training simulations. In 2009 Canadian Standards Association, North America’s largest corporate training provider, acquired Distil Interactive. Following the acquisition, Dr. White was a Professor of Computer Science, first with Carleton University and then with University of Ottawa. Today, Dr.

See the full conference schedule
Converge 2020
Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2020
3:45pm to 4:10pm EST