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Originally Posted by Kenswing
Zencity, an Israeli startup, uses artificial intelligence to aggregate comments from sources such as social networks, news websites, and municipal hotlines - then reports its findings to government officials.
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The last paragraph explains exactly what happens. It's a little geeky, but in layman's terms:
It's an automatic "reverse search" engine. Basically it is a 100% automated computer program that scans incoming data from individual sources, and categorizes each source. Then, this automated computer program analyzes the collected data in each category, and spits out the computerized analysis.
As an example, using the paragraph I just posted above:
"Each word containing fewer than 5 letters is composed of at least one vowel. The most common is the letter a, at 2:3 frequency.
Each word containing 5-8 letters is composed of at least two vowels. The most frequently-occurring vowel in these words is o. The most frequent consonant is the letter s.
The most frequent occurrence of any letter overall is the letter e, which coincides with typical American English writing and grammar structure."
That's the kind of thing that's happening. It's not checking to see WHO is writing things. It's checking to see WHAT's being written, and the overall structure of the data.
If you want to know what people really think, check Social Media. Don't ask people personally, don't create polls. In Social Media, people take down their civility filters and are more likely to express themselves truthfully.
And so, that's what Zencity will be doing for Sumter County.
It's not some rare unique or new method of acquiring information, it's been around for decades.