IMFD creates experimental application to consult on candidacies for May 7 elections

May, 2023 - The experimental application Constituteando(https://constituteando.imfd.cl/), based on their own work to enhance the capabilities of GPT, has just been launched by researchers at the Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data (IMFD). The application allows queries on general information, ideas or proposals of the candidates for constitutional councilors in the elections of Sunday, May 7, 2023. 

This application is a prototype, which seeks to test the work of the IMFD in the area of complementing generative language models, so that they can learn to navigate data from particular contexts, and evaluate whether their answers can serve for the benefit of society. The model is trained to access candidacy data published in the Electoral Service and a corpus of more than 100,000 tweets from those running for office.

Juan Reutter, deputy director of IMFD, explains that "with this prototype we want to measure how our technology is doing in a massive context, with thousands of users asking different questions. Our idea, in the future, is to use this technology to facilitate access to structured data, especially those that are important for our society, but are still difficult to navigate and process. One of the points we are most interested in measuring is the accuracy of the answers of these models, thinking that these developments should be designed to serve citizens".

Therefore, as with all systems based on language models, the researchers in charge of Constituteando emphasize that there is a small failure rate that can cause responses to contain errors.

"In addition, it is always necessary to consider that the responses are nourished by a corpus of more than 100,000 tweets from the candidates, with their own differences, biases and styles," adds Reutter. 

The experimental application was created by researchers at the Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data with advice from the consulting firm Hebra Analytics. 

We invite you to learn more about the system and make inquiries at https://constituteando.imfd.cl.

For comments on the development, sharing of bugs and/or successes of the system, please write to desarrollo@imfd.cl