Listen now | Earlier today I did end up getting ChatGPT Plus for a cost of USD $20 a month. That apparently will provide me better availability during high demand, faster response speeds, and priority access to new features [1]. I’m not sure if this subscription will be worth keeping. I’m about to open up the latest model GPT-4 and see what it is able to accomplish in terms of advanced reasoning, complex instructions, and more creativity. I have spent the last 6 weeks thinking about writing these polling related papers. A lot of that time and effort was spent trying to figure out what the trajectory of the current literature was and what that meant for the future of understanding and evaluating sentiment. To me polling is a sampling of sentiment on something. It’s an evaluation of respondent preference or attitude. I’m writing that explanation without using the word opinion. That word choice happened on purpose.