Andrew Nicklin

Weird, I thought they were trying to reduce needless government stuff.

@khoney @USDS @DOGE Except: Their truth is relative; they move fast and break stuff. Zero respect for career fed employees. And perhaps most importantly, they just haven’t earned anyone’s trust.

Genuine ?: If against gov kickbacks & regulatory capture, why protest @USDS @DOGE? Values same, yes? 1. Hire & empower great people 2. Find the truth. Tell the truth 3. Optimize for results, not optics 4. Go where the work is 5. Create momentum 6. Design with users, not for them 💪💻🇺🇸

Reduce link rot and make federal websites more efficient: A reset of whitehouse.gov happens every presidential changeover; federal government agencies and news orgs and everyone really just should stop linking to it.

Re: "[State CIOs] said data management is a major obstacle" in adopting AI (from route-fifty.com/emerging-tech/… ), then maybe AI at #3 and data management at #6 in their 2024 priorities is backwards? nascio.org/wp-content/upl… @chris_teale

How will AI power our future? Check out #GovEx Senior Research Data Manager @technickle and Data Scientist Maeve Mulholland's (and a chatbot’s) reflections from the inaugural @DenAiSummit. hubs.ly/Q02V8RTl0

When we are publishing data & metadata for GenAI consumption, since the data is already inherently biased, do we center equity through metadata? Are there patterns / best practices for this?

@RobTerrin Everyone in the tribe is a leader of something…

@technickle Oh no. Does everyone have to be a chief now?

“Kai-ohs” is I guess how we’re supposed to acronym Chief Artificial Intelligence Officers (CAIO)? I know it’s not the same spelling but CIAOs (chows) has a certain ring to it.

Counterpoint to the demands for machine-readable open data: maybe GenAI would use it more effectively if we’d just left it in PDFs?

Internection: a portmanteau invented by my son to mean internet connection. As in “Dad: I can’t play multiplayer. Can you please fix my internection?”

Am I overreacting when I feel like making a stock image black girl the poster child for "misbehavior" in Florida (to a government & policy audience, no less) is a bad idea? route-fifty.com/digital-govern…

.@ojwise and his team are asking very smart questions about evolution of open data towards AI-readiness. @CommerceGov are asking the public for input. - commerce.gov/news/blog/2024…

Question: as a resident of the US, what apps can I not access right now in the Apple App Store because of US regulatory restrictions? (Not looking for those that just aren’t available to me if their audience is elsewhere or they are regulated by their home countries.)

AI can't do it yet, so we want a human to help us shape a community of government leaders using AI responsibly. Join our team! govex.jhu.edu/jobs/community…

As a coauthor of one of the AI toolkits discussed in this academic meta-analysis, I found this interesting to read. dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.114… Thank you @richmondywong @mmadaio et al for your work on it

The hype cycle is real, y’all.

A sad day for California; @JoyBonaguro leaves some very big boots to fill.

Hot take: most parents of younger kids could probably do a decent job at AI prompt engineering.

Good to see some counterbalance to the very valid concerns about generative AI and hallucination/deliberate misinformation.

Also does the lookout have bathrooms for the pups? Or do they just “go” outside between takes?

Imagine how much faster the Paw Patrol pups would get to emergencies if Ryder didn’t summon them to the lookout and subject them to an animated PowerPoint presentation.