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Building confidence in Simile | Simile

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Behind the scenes into Simile's proprietary confidence model.

Introduction At Simile, we train a model that simulates how an individual or population will act in a particular situation. Our model takes a prompt in natural language that describes the population, situation, and set of valid actions, and it returns a distribution over the actions that the population will take. We train on a variety of data: transactions from grocery stores and delivery apps that show us what people do, and AI-led voice interviews and surveys on our in-house platform that help us understand why they do it. For example, we can ask our model what brand of chips elderly…

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