Public Perception of Artificial Intelligence
This project explaining the trends in public opinions, which had long been focusing on the development of Artificial Intellegence.
The power of AI is obvious to all. Who knows when they will suddenly lose their jobs because of AI? And who is expecting AI to make life better? The goal of this project is to deliver scholars' answers to these questions.
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According to researchers, analyses of text corpora over time can reveal trends in beliefs, interest, and sentiment about a topic.They focused on views expressed about artificial intelligence (AI) in the New York Times over a 30-year period. General interest, awareness, and discussion about AI has waxed and waned since the field was founded in 1956. Then they captured levels of engagement, measures of pessimism and optimism, the prevalence of specific hopes and concerns, and topics that are linked to discussions about AI over decades.
In my work, I used Grasshopper on Rhino to parametrically model the data and display the information through simple graphics and rich layers. I presented this complex model in detail in the animation and presented simplified data stories in the posters.
Reference
Fast, Ethan & Horvitz, Eric. (2016). Long-Term Trends in the Public Perception of Artificial Intelligence. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 31. 10.1609/aaai.v31i1.10635.