Steve B. Holt

@stevebholt.bsky.social

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Associate Professor. Public Management, Education Policy, Econometrics. https://stevebholt.github.io/

Screenshot from the NY Times that reads: "In the House primaries in Texas … Representative Tony Gonzales, who is under scrutiny over an affair with a staff member who later died by suicide, was forced into a runoff against Brandon Herrera, a hard-line conservative and YouTuber known as the AK Guy."
News alert banner from the Times Union that reads "Sugar cookies sold at Target recalled for potential wood contamination."
First item from a New York Times article about how people are using AI at work that says, "1. Select wines for restaurant menus"
Best movies ballot for 10 best movies since 2000. On the ballot are Her, Knives Out, Gone Girl, Catch Me If You Can, Birdman, No Country for Old Men, Burn After Reading, Stranger Than Fiction, Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood, and Parasite.
Screenshot reads: "The feature is different from the AI summaries that already show up in Google’s search results, which appear above the usual list of links to outside websites. Instead, AI Mode functionally replaces Google Search with something akin to ChatGPT. You ask a question and the AI spits out an answer. Instead of sifting through a list of blue links, you can just ask a follow-up. Google has begun rolling out AI Mode to users in the United States as a tab below the search bar (before “Images,” “Shopping,” and the like). The company said it will soon introduce a number of more advanced, experimental capabilities to AI Mode, at which point the feature could be able to write a research report in minutes, “see” through your smartphone’s camera to assist with physical tasks such as a DIY crafts project, help book restaurant reservations, make payments. Whether AI Mode can become as advanced and as seamless as Google promises remains far from certain, but the firm appears to be aiming for something like an everything app: a single tool that will be able to do just about everything a person could possibly want to do online."