Josh Dennison

Future Chief of Staff.

Currently just staff.

[Governor JB Pritzker @GovPritzker]

To all those who served today as election judges, supervisors, or poll workers: thank you for your dedication.

With your help, voting in Illinois is accessible, safe, and secure.

Know that our state — and our democracy — are grateful for your service.

[Adrienne LaFrance @AdrienneLaF]

You really have to read Ted Chiang on consciousness and AI—just published in The Atlantic:

https://t.co/z9eRSlkwQ8

[Josh Dennison @jsdennison]

Woke up this morning to find @Microsoft had forced @MSFTCopilot onto my windows taskbar with an update. Decided to see how trustworthy it is. Asked it a very simple question. It lied and only gave me the right answer when I told it that it was wrong.

Don't trust these tools.

[Jason Kint @jason_kint]

wow. an amazing 325 page google strategy document quietly unsealed buried in google antitrust docket. It's gonna take a long thread but I have pulled out the gems. It's from 2017 planning, no doubt Google will just say these were only ideas but many will look very familiar. /1

[Mike @hammerito]

Hahahahahhaha someone parked their cybertruck at the coffee shop and every single person who comes in is talking about how dumb it looks and the guy is sitting there fuming this is the best morning ever

[Josh Dennison @jsdennison]

@ashlampertokin @Crytivo New phone who dis?

[Gary Marcus @GaryMarcus]

When I started working on AI four decades ago, it simply didn’t occur to me that one of the biggest use cases would be derivative mimicry, transferring value from artists and other creators to megacorporations, using massive amounts of energy.

This is not the AI I dreamed of.

[Publishers Weekly @PublishersWkly]

"Before we get going, are there any Moms for Liberty in the house? No? Good. then hands will not need to be thrown tonight."

Host LeVar Burton kicks off this year's National Book Awards ceremony. #NBAwards

[Prakash @8teAPi]

Vicious Self-Degradation

> you Google
> Quora spots query and id’s as frequent
> Quora uses ChatGPT to generate answer
> ChatGPT hallucinates
> Google picks up Quora answer as highest probability correct answer
> ChatGPT hallucination is now canonical Google answer

[Robby Slowik @RobbySlowik]

The CEO of OpenAI hoping a movie about the man who made the literal worst thing on earth would inspire kids to be scientists tells you everything you need to know about OpenAI

[follow @bencollins on bluesky @oneunderscore__]

Silicon Valley billionaires: Take one liberal arts class. One. Any single one. I am begging you.

[follow @bencollins on bluesky @oneunderscore__]

I wrote something personal about how we're losing the information war.

Thanks to Harvard's @NiemanLab for publishing this. I hope you read it.
https://t.co/AF4VPQF0wO

[Sophia Benoit @1followernodad]

YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES!

https://t.co/PxfbcScAaq

[Eric Ravenscraft @LordRavenscraft]

I've been in Google's beta test for generative AI search results. I've also been playing Tears of the Kingdom.

I wanna talk about how this is a perfect example of how this new approach makes search results way, WAY worse.

And that's before we even get to the errors.

A 🧵

[Brian Stelter @brianstelter]

Last year CNN CEO Chris Licht and PR exec @MDornic agreed to let @TimAlberta inside the network for a fly-on-the-wall look at Licht's "new CNN." The story is out today and it is jaw-dropping. Once you've read it, here's a thread of context... https://t.co/bEaNg7i8uB

[Josh Dennison @jsdennison]

I'd like to nominate this as the worst #gaming take of at least the week. Games should be fun I don't want to log into Zelda and think "if I don't finish 2 shrines tonight I won't make any money"

[Alexis Ohanian 🗽 @alexisohanian]

Within the next 5 years, the majority of gamers won't play games unless they are being properly valued for that time.

The model is called "play-to-earn" and it will become standard for video games in the future.

Let’s talk about why ↓

[Microsoft @Microsoft]

In honor of @MarvelStudios’ #GotGVol3 we’re giving away this never opened Microsoft Zune. We have no idea if it works. Like and RT for a chance to win! US 18+. Ends 5/17/23. Rules: https://t.co/Mdr2C4z9aY. #ZuneSweepstakes

[Josh Dennison @jsdennison]

@localcelebrity P.s. Lawyers please note the use of potentially BS. Don't sue me.

[Josh Dennison @jsdennison]

@localcelebrity I was following this dude for a while when he just made tech and Chicago vids... Then the investigation started and I was just confused, he was being super dramatic and talking about being recruited so I stopped following. Not at all surprised this ended up being potentially BS