Public servant. Into public sector innovation, disruption, emerging tech, futures, the Singularity, public admin & all things wonk. Views mine. 🏳️🌈
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11 Jun 2023
Some idle thoughts about how generative AI might change our relationship with our own thinking and writing captaininnovate.com/2023/06/…
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14 Apr 2024
Say what you want about AI generated songs, but at least now the gap in the market for Nordic symphonic power metal ballads about working in the public service can finally be addressed udio.com/songs/4DWojePugQ9WQ…
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20 Mar 2024
Interesting research from the UK turing.ac.uk/news/ai-could-h… "Artificial intelligence (AI) could help automate around 84% of repetitive transactions across 200 government services"
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7 Nov 2023
Levels of AGI: Operationalizing Progress on the Path to AGI
Proposes a framework for classifying the capabilities and behavior of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) models and their precursors
abs: arxiv.org/abs/2311.02462
repo: github.com/google/agi
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3 Aug 2023
Some idle thoughts about how large language models might disintermediate the messaging and the voice of governments and public sectors. captaininnovate.com/2023/08/…
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6 Jul 2023
Why can't we go back to having one platform to rule them all? I'm at CaptainInnovate over at threads.
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4 Jul 2023
Our team at @IPAustralia has published some 'provocations' and observations about what generative AI might mean for the IP system ipaustralia.gov.au/temp/Gene….
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12 Jun 2023
I blogged about how we'll need to start designing government content around the needs of Large Language Models and generative AI medium.com/@maltbyps/governm…
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18 May 2023
Useful intro/101 on gen AI for public sector folks.
11 May 2023
InnovateUS, a training ground for public agency professionals, has released a free, interactive video centered around the use of generative AI. The video aims to fill a need for AI education among government officials. govtech.com/biz/new-ai-video…
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Alex Roberts retweeted
13 May 2023
When you have a situation where the new energy/ideas/innovation is at the edges, what you need is a centripetal system - one that pulls ideas in from the periphery into the centre of government. But we don't really have mechanisms for that.
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25 Apr 2023
And with that, the final hurdle for passage of the world’s first #CarbonBorderTax has passed.
The 🇪🇺Council, the EU legislature’s upper chamber, has rubber-stamped the deal reached with lower chamber 🇪🇺Parliament. Poland voted against, Bulgaria & Belgium abstained.
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23 Mar 2023
At @MSFTResearch we had early access to the marvelous #GPT4 from @OpenAI for our work on @bing. We took this opportunity to document our experience. We're so excited to share our findings. In short: time to face it, the sparks of #AGI have been ignited.
arxiv.org/abs/2303.12712
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16 Mar 2023
This is very impressive (the hands has been the hardest bit to generate accurately in all the images I've generated)
16 Mar 2023
And for humans, well, here is "doctor on a plane using Wifi" (again, no prompt-crafting) in V5 and V4 and V3
Look at the hands!!
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📢We're pleased to present the preliminary findings of the OECD #InnovationTrends2023 at the @WorldGovSummit in Dubai, in advance of the release of our final report next month
💡1,000 innovations analyzed
🌍94 countries
📈4 major trends
#WorldGovSummit #WGS2023 @MBRinnovation
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13 Feb 2023
Bright, shiny, inconsequential’? The rise and fall of innovation labs in the aid sector devpolicy.org/the-rise-and-f… @TamasWells
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10 Jan 2023
To add to the million bits of writing about ChatGPT, I jotted down some thoughts about why it might be significant to the public sector captaininnovate.com/2023/01/…
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11 Dec 2022
The National Ignition Facility (NIF) has achieved net energy gain from fusion! This is incredibly exciting scientifically, but what does it mean for the future of energy?
In all likelihood, very little.
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11 Dec 2022
SCOOP: Net energy gain in a fusion reaction has been a holy grail in science for decades. Now I’m told US scientists have done it. A massive breakthrough with revolutionary potential for clean power. US Energy Secretary to hold a press conference Tuesday on.ft.com/3PgDdya
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11 Dec 2022
"A toolkit to evaluate experiments in public space" fiksukaupunki.fi/toolbox/exp… @lopezbaeza_ @spinunit
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