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Multiple readings America.gov Policy & governance · 4 attributable reactions Multiple readings Inference Cooperative — AI, governed together Building & implementation · 2 attributable reactions
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America.gov US government resource

America.gov

25 experts across 5 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Building & implementation reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · FedScoop
“The chatbot comes as an expansion of the Office of Personnel Management’s work to modernize access to public federal workforce data. Integration with America.gov is planned. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SUx... Read more by @madialder.bsky.social: fedscoop.com/o…” evidence ↗
25 experts 5 communities 1 sources clustered
Mark Riedl CSET Georgetown Lightspeed Chris Brockett Marielza Sasha Costanza-Chock Karl Bode lastpositivist.bsky.social +17
How the network is reacting Experts are approaching this through 3 distinct lenses.
Multiple readings

Policy & governance

2 experts

Rules, institutions and accountability.

“America.gov does not do pronouns. Any pronouns. (Courtesy of my daughter!) aifails.substack.com/p/pronouns”

Concern & critique

1 expert

Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“Jessica Ji weighed in on the new #AI-powered https://t.co/sEHIhq7mvb website for @USATODAY, saying that it can be a useful resource for people trying to navigate U.S. government websites. She also notes its risks: “When this kind of AI system is empowered t…”

Building & implementation

1 expert

How teams are shipping and applying it.

“The chatbot comes as an expansion of the Office of Personnel Management’s work to modernize access to public federal workforce data. Integration with America.gov is planned. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SUx... Read more by @madialder.bsky.social: fedscoop.com/o…”

2 experts discussed this · 3 posts
Julian Sanchez: Ok wow. This is both extensive and deeply surreal. Tell America.gov to Play Minecraft.
Julian Sanchez: Amusingly, the chatbot appears to be unable to recognize that it said anything weird. It “thinks” it just responded that it can’t play minecraft.
Justin Hendrix: Weird
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Developing Policy & governance Resource 1d ago
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inference cooperative AI governance

Inference Cooperative — AI, governed together

3 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Building & implementation reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Ronen Tamari
“Maybe relevant @ntnsndr.in in context of inference.coop (congrats on the launch!)” evidence ↗
3 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered
Ronen Tamari Nathan Schneider B! 🐝 Cavello (they/them)
How the network is reacting Experts are approaching this through 2 distinct lenses.
Multiple readings

Building & implementation

1 expert

How teams are shipping and applying it.

“Maybe relevant @ntnsndr.in in context of inference.coop (congrats on the launch!)”

Research & technical analysis

1 expert

Evidence, methods and technical implications.

“There are now hand-made doodles on the Inference Cooperative home page. It's a small, superficial thing, but to me it matters: To make clear that the heart of this co-op is the people who join, not the AI tools we share. https://inference.coop”

2 experts discussed this · 6 posts
Nathan Schneider: A month ago, I found myself in the unexpected position of founding an AI startup. Today, the Inference Co-op adopted its first real governance charter. We can't make AI good, but we can own our cho…
B! 🐝 Cavello (they/them): A month ago, I found myself in the unexpected position of founding an AI startup. Today, the Inference Co-op adopted its first real governance charter. We can't make AI good, but we can own our cho…
Marco Z: where does it run ? is that Tinfoil?
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5 experts · 26 posts · 21h ago
Ben Recht Clément Canonne Suresh Venkatasubramanian Dashiell Joshua Grochow
Matches Building & implementation
“No, surprisingly, Karmarkar's algorithm was immediately implementable, and the worst-case complexity constants were all pretty reasonable.” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Questions & unknowns · 2 Concern & critique · 1 Research & technical analysis · 1
Clément Canonne: Of all the possibles takes on the claimed refutation of the Exponential Time Hypothesis, "it isn't a practical algorithm" is maybe the worst.
Clément Canonne: Just to be clear: there are many valid criticisms to make! But the fact that "the constant in the O(.) is big" is absurd. What's next, "most of maths is useless because real numbers don't actually …
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7 experts · 11 posts · 1d ago
Eugene Vinitsky Alexander Hoyle Alejandra Caraballo Colin tweety fish Mary Branscombe Matt Darling
Matches Building & implementation
“I think if the coding capabilities and agentic features had never been developed, he would've been dead on. I've had to adjust my own view multiple times. I was wrong about it because I thought LLM…” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Markets & investment · 2 Research & technical analysis · 2 Building & implementation · 1
Eugene Vinitsky: You're conflating the position of extremists with the much more standard, measured take that AI will be transformative (which it already has been)
tweety fish: “Predicted fifteen of the last one stock crashes” somewhat famously does not count as being good at prediction.
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4 experts · 5 posts · 1d ago
Ted Underwood Marc Lanctot Tim Kellogg Isaiah Bishop
Matches Building & implementation
“Gemma is the first LLM to operate in space Google’s project suncatcher launched a TPU into space a few weeks ago. Today they sent a command, booted it up, and it generated a haiku” evidence ↗
Tim Kellogg: Gemma is the first LLM to operate in space Google’s project suncatcher launched a TPU into space a few weeks ago. Today they sent a command, booted it up, and it generated a haiku
Isaiah Bishop: Unbelievable google voice on that one lol
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3 experts · 5 posts · 1d ago
Eryk Salvaggio Hagen Blix Tyler Shoemaker
Matches Building & implementation
“Come on, it's not like these guys are connected to the US military? It's not like Amodei and Altman are giving speeches about their preferred geopolitical developments to the UN, or giving huge amo…” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Markets & investment · 1 Research & technical analysis · 1
Hagen Blix: Yup. 💯 And now he's also selling people on the idea that, ultimately, capitalism will just solve the problem on its own. Take comfort in the market!
Hagen Blix: Come on, it's not like these guys are connected to the US military? It's not like Amodei and Altman are giving speeches about their preferred geopolitical developments to the UN, or giving huge amo…
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3 experts · 4 posts · 1d ago
Benjamin Riley Colin rev. howard arson
Matches Building & implementation
“I hope they bring it back because this had become my primary drink ordering workflow” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Building & implementation · 1 Opportunity & adoption · 1
Colin: I have some breaking news. I'm unable to find any coverage of this but I have verified it myself. It seems that the Starbucks app in ChatGPT is gone.
rev. howard arson: an opportunity for the Lunch app to step in
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2 experts · 3 posts · 1d ago
Eli Sennesh Colin
Matches Building & implementation
“hey good job. I have always found this thing to be quite a marvel of engineering.” evidence ↗
Colin: hey good job. I have always found this thing to be quite a marvel of engineering.
Eli Sennesh: saw some reports that google is turning off AI mode by default in search; seems to have already rolled out to me
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2 experts · 2 posts · 1d ago
tachikoma Singularity's Bounty e/cc
Matches Building & implementation
“I think this is a recent development with the agentic emphasis (?) I made a harness that runs on parliamentary rules a while back and the models made a proposal, voted yes, then voted to adjourn (t…” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Building & implementation · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
Singularity's Bounty e/cc: I think this is a recent development with the agentic emphasis (?) I made a harness that runs on parliamentary rules a while back and the models made a proposal, voted yes, then voted to adjourn (t…
tachikoma: i think its because proceduralism and rule following have been drilled into them so hard they will invent rules to follow if none are given. i guess its soothing to them? or maybe rewarding.
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