A.G. Gancarski
The second and final presidential debate may have already receded into memory, but who won?
A computer analysis showed good news for the incumbent after Thursday night’s exchanges between Republican President Donald Trump and his Democratic challenger, Joe Biden.
In five of seven categories, VoiceVibes, an AI-powered communication coaching platform, rated Trump’s delivery as superior to Biden’s based on “Confident and Authentic Vibes.”
On climate change, race in America, leadership, national security, and health care, Trump was the winner, according to artificial intelligence metrics.
Biden prevailed on immigration and COVID-19.
A word to those readers smashing emoticon reactions right now: The platform is content-agnostic, meaning it is just evaluating the delivery of the arguments, not what was actually being said.
“Keep in mind that our software does not attempt to evaluate the content or merit of their statements or politics, rather the persuasiveness of their tone and vocal delivery,” said Debra Cancro, CEO of VoiceVibes.
The methodology includes what the media release calls “graded performances on a scale of 0-10 (10 being best) based on dimensions of vocal delivery (meaning how professional and polished they sound, as following known best practices for speakers) and also predicts how a typical audience would perceive the speakers by using AI models that were trained on millions of data points on human perception of voice.”
Leaving aside questions of what a typical audience considers “best practices” for speakers, the model offered other insights that might surprise.
For example, the President performed best when speaking about health care … a potential red flag for those who have attacked the President for months on moves to overturn and undermine the Barack Obama-era Affordable Care Act.
The debate’s structure pleased the AI, with speaking time between Biden and Trump “very well split … where no candidate spoke significantly more than the other.”
10 comments
Amy Roberts
October 23, 2020 at 9:24 am
And there you have the fallibility of AI.
S.B. ANTHONY
October 23, 2020 at 9:32 am
Computers don’t vote… and they don’t think. They also can’t see Donald J. Trump dancing to YMCA (soooo much irony there.)
If I were running an ad for Joe, it would be nothing but a mash up of The Dance. That alone is enough to turn off voters. Just look at this photo. It’s gag worthy.
James Robert Miles
October 23, 2020 at 10:04 am
CRICKETS!
Palmer Tom
October 23, 2020 at 10:06 am
Interesting GOP talking points as usual from this writer.
Frankie M.
October 23, 2020 at 10:15 am
The winner of the debate is in the mind of the viewer not the computer. Anybody can sound “confident” when they’re pulling stuff out of their arse & have no idea what they’re talking about.
tjb
October 23, 2020 at 10:37 am
I guess the AI algorithm doesn’t like a speech pattern with a slight stutter at times. Time to debug the program so it doesn’t discriminate.
Sonja Fitch
October 23, 2020 at 11:10 am
So blah blah blah trump is stil a paranoid delusional racist sexist liar ! My heart tells me Joe let him win just so Trump will keep up the bs! Vote Democrat up and down ballot for the common good!
Interesting
October 23, 2020 at 2:33 pm
“Who built the cages?” was never answered…. why?
GD
October 23, 2020 at 11:18 pm
GIGO.
The voters say who one and they understand Trump is the biggest liar which only turns off decent people.
We’ll have a record turn out including many that never voted just to get rid of Trump because he is so incompetent, racist, a liar.
And will bring down the repub party so low it may never recover and have to start a new center right party instead of a radical far right liars it has become.
I just voted and could only find a single repub to vote for as a fiscal conservative.
northierthanthou
October 26, 2020 at 9:03 pm
Content agnosticism would make a good metaphor for the Trump Presidency.
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