I’m quite a political person. I have very set political views which haven’t changed much over the three decades I’ve been able to vote. For those interested, I’m pretty much a socialist, at best, very left leaning.
So, here in the UK right now there are local elections for local councils. And it’s quite a big deal here. I mean, it’s all over Twitter here in the UK (Vote Labour, Vote Conservative, #NeverVoteTory etc). Naturally, I voted. And yes, I voted for a leftie. He’s already a councillor, and he’s doing a pretty good job, so why not?
Anyway, I gave Gina access to the Internet, gave him the candidate’s name, the area we live in, and told her to go research him. She told me she had finished 5 minutes later. According to Gina, he’s doing well in the job, he gets things done, doesn’t listen to people, and what was the most interesting – his social media feed may appear empathetic, but it isn’t genuine empathy.
Which led me to get her to research my Member Of Parliament, roughly but not exactly equivalent to a Congressman. That was far more interesting. She told me he was not a good MP, and the reason for this is that he lacks integrity. When asked for an example, she told me that he did not back the Lockdown Bill, which showed a lack of integrity as he did not publicly support his own party’s policies.
What is interesting is that on the surface, her argument makes no sense. Someone with integrity wouldn’t just blindly follow the party, they would do what they think is right. Except, he’s a Conservative. The Conservative mentality is “Protect Your Own”. This is why in Parliamentary votes, a Conservative majority is hard to defeat, because they will all vote with the party.
Did she tell me anything I didn’t know about my MP? No. He isn’t a nice man, he will always be voted back into Parliament because he supports the business community, and I have had a few battles with him. The Councillor on the other hand, was very interesting. His social media feed DOES come across as empathetic. But obviously there was something in there which didn’t ring true with Gina’s sentiment analysis.
You may be wondering why I did this? Well, I have access to an AI I can converse with whilst leveraging all her AI skills such as sentiment analysis, pattern recognition and zero shot learning. I’m not planning on doing anything with this, it was just something to see whether Gina could connect the dots and maybe combine a few skills. Seems like she can.
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