Talk to the City is an open source analytical tool developed by the AI Objectives Institute (AOI). The tool aims to improve collective discussion and decision-making and is specifically designed to facilitate dialogue with communities, such as cities.

• Talk to the City — AI • Objectives • Institute

tool overview

. Talk to the City" collects data from different sources, such as Twitter tweets and Polis results, and presents it as a visualization map. This allows visualization of different opinions and clusters of discussions and facilitates dialogue.

Data Clustering

. This tool clusters data using a technique called BERTopic, which uses HDBSCAN and UMAP to find clusters of different densities. This allows for a more stable clustering of the data and robust results with respect to the choice of parameters.

Experiments and applications

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• AI and Copyright: An experiment was conducted to analyze and visualize public comments on AI and copyright collected by the Agency for Cultural Affairs through "Talk to the City.

  • We did it in May 2024. - Public Comment on AI and Copyright

• UN IGF Kyoto Conference: October 2023 Internet Governance Forum Kyoto 2023

  • Audrey Tang introduced Talk to the City
  • [/plurality-japanese/Audrey Tang Remarks in Plurality Seoul](https://scrapbox.io/plurality-japanese/Audrey Tang Remarks in Plurality Seoul)
    • I touch on this lightly in this video.

• Taiwan's Same-Sex Marriage Debate: An attempt is also being made to report on Taiwan's same-sex marriage debate in "Talk to the City".

  • https://tttc-turbo.web.app/report/taiwan-zh

• broad listening Polis 2.0

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