"Talk to the City" achieves milestone
The best way to understand Talk to the city is to see it in use. It is an open source library that pulls a set of public conversations (from tweets to private surveys) and then analyzes, groups and digests them using LLMs to create a better form of comprehensible constituency feedback.
"...an open-source AI platform that turns large-scale conversations into actionable insights while preserving individual perspectives—from local town halls to national policy discussions."
TTC dramatically reduces the cost of, and improves the quality of surveying citizens.
Talk to the City is a sponsored project of our grantee AI Objectives Institute and part of our Civic, Social and Govtech Grantmaking and AI for public good grants, and part of an effort to collaboratively pair tooling and ideas with organizations like pol.is, our Internet Democracy Project and grantee WeVote's constituent platform.
Of all our AI for public good grants, we are most pleased with their collaborative intent, having both open sourced the model and its software and designed its interface and APIs for broad unrestricted usage. They have achieved a major milestone release for public consumption after refactoring the codebase.
Here's a link to the Github if you would like to put it to work!
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