I just read a paper about using AI to perform qualitative data collection and god it’s awesome. When I imagine about the things we can achieve if it’s perfected, I mean nearly perfected, especially at scale, it’s gonna be frikkin awesome!
It of course has some limitations, especially in terms of emotional engagement, and this is where I’m super curious about GPT 4.5. If the news is true, it’s gonna feel like we’re talking to a more sensible person when we use it, and when this is combined with a simple chat system to act as an AI interviewer, the amount of data we could collect would be tremendous.
I’m not really sure, if there is some custom solution, I would think there is, at least in the realm of interviews and hiring ( it’s money making ). I tried out replicating what they had done in and the results are sweet, I’ll see if I can integrate it with Gemini’s free tier and open source the app.
But, god am I excited.
Paper : Conversations at Scale