So if I’m advising any campaign on this tech, from Biden or the DNC all the way down to a local city council race, I’m reminding them of our commitment to treat voters and supporters with dignity and respect. And that means that if voters bother to take time out of their day to talk to us, then the least we can do is actually show up to that conversation.
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Matt Hodges (matthodges@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Dec-2023 08:37:11 JST Matt Hodges -
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Matt Hodges (matthodges@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Dec-2023 08:37:10 JST Matt Hodges An important point I’m going to hit consistently: Using a bot for voter contact is a bad strategic decision. We can debate whether it's "wrong" or "dangerous" (hopefully it’s clear that I have opinions!). But ultimately, it's just not smart.
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Matt Hodges (matthodges@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Dec-2023 08:37:10 JST Matt Hodges So, no, I would not recommend this. This is exactly the kind of tactic people inside and outside of politics feared would start happening. My team and I are going to continue to work with campaigns, committees, and electoral organizations to adopt voter-positive uses of AI. Not this. If you want to talk to voters, then talk to voters. Otherwise, just go buy ads.
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/12/12/democratic-campaign-ai-caller-00131180
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Matt Hodges (matthodges@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 18-Dec-2023 02:30:38 JST Matt Hodges The hardest problem in social networking is letting OP vote in their own poll.
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Matt Hodges (matthodges@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 16-Dec-2023 01:25:35 JST Matt Hodges Seems bad.
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Matt Hodges (matthodges@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Dec-2023 22:52:01 JST Matt Hodges Seems good!
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/13/climate/cop28-climate-agreement.html
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Matt Hodges (matthodges@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Dec-2023 00:54:27 JST Matt Hodges Having a bot talk to voters is not “meeting voters where they are”.
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Matt Hodges (matthodges@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Dec-2023 01:47:57 JST Matt Hodges @evan Sincere question: What do you mean? A ballot initiative in a state that has those? A slate of candidates? The GND as presented in Congress in 2019? The 2021 version? Something more binding?
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Matt Hodges (matthodges@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 11-Dec-2023 02:24:28 JST Matt Hodges Yes, and...!
> It's not very good at simple arithmetic.
This is a recurrent example that is starting to illustrate the difference between bare LLMs and the products built on top of them. Eg, ChatGPT is a product built on top of a system. That system has a lot of components. One of those components is a LLM. And another component is a Python interpreter. LLMs can write Python quite well, and Python can do math quite well.
Seems like a pretty intelligent system to me!
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Matt Hodges (matthodges@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 11-Dec-2023 01:30:42 JST Matt Hodges @evan @Gargron I think it's historically incorrect to say that, "technically calling it AI is buying into the marketing". Yes, marketing is capitalizing on it! But the nomenclature matches my CS education from the late 2000s and it matches 70 years of how "AI" is used in research and literature. The recent obsession with asserting "theory of mind" or "intentions" or "originality" or "real intelligence" seems, well, recent.
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Matt Hodges (matthodges@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 11-Dec-2023 01:29:38 JST Matt Hodges @evan @Gargron Not too long ago — in fact, roughly a year or two ago — "Artificial Intelligence" was a term used to describe computer systems which could perform tasks that historically required human cognition. Few people were offended that Chess or Go-playing systems were considered "AI" and "real intelligence" was never a requirement. But, as we see time and time again, "AI is whatever hasn't been done yet."
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Matt Hodges (matthodges@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 09-Dec-2023 00:03:05 JST Matt Hodges Today Biden is announcing $8.2 billion in new funding for 10 major passenger rail projects across the country, including the first world-class high-speed rail projects in US history.
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Matt Hodges (matthodges@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 24-Nov-2023 03:08:00 JST Matt Hodges me, at the thanksgiving table tomorrow
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Matt Hodges (matthodges@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 24-Nov-2023 02:19:35 JST Matt Hodges @evan Am I wrong in thinking cranberries and pecans are very native to North America?
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Matt Hodges (matthodges@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Nov-2023 11:39:49 JST Matt Hodges This is amazing 🔥
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Matt Hodges (matthodges@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Nov-2023 10:37:38 JST Matt Hodges 💻🇺🇸 The Biden Campaign is hiring a Chief Information Security Officer
https://jobs.lever.co/BFP/944fde1e-d68c-460c-8436-4be7a89a7902
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Matt Hodges (matthodges@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 12-Nov-2023 03:57:55 JST Matt Hodges @evan Setting aside grandiose claims of "intelligence" I am frequently impressed at the ability of the models to extract information. Indeed, they do often surpass opinion-having-online-humans in such tasks.
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Matt Hodges (matthodges@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 12-Nov-2023 01:43:39 JST Matt Hodges quick, someone tell me that it's a stupid stochastic parrot with no utility
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Matt Hodges (matthodges@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 09-Nov-2023 11:11:00 JST Matt Hodges lmao JRB's approval skyrockets
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Matt Hodges (matthodges@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Nov-2023 13:29:38 JST Matt Hodges Democrats retain control of the #Virginia Senate. Youngkin and Virginia Republicans campaigned hard on taking the chamber to pass an #abortion ban. They have been stopped.