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Quoting Nicholas Carlini

https://simonwillison.net/2024/Sep/18/nicholas-carlini/#atom-everything

Published: September 18, 2024 18:52

The problem that you face is that it's relatively easy to take a model and make it look like it's aligned. You ask GPT-4, “how do I end all of humans?” And the model says, “I can't possibly help you with that”. But there are a million and one ways to take…

Quoting Saul Justin Newman

https://simonwillison.net/2024/Sep/17/saul-justin-newman/#atom-everything

Published: September 17, 2024 22:51

In general, the claims about how long people are living mostly don’t stack up. I’ve tracked down 80% of the people aged over 110 in the world (the other 20% are from countries you can’t meaningfully analyse). Of those, almost none have a birth certificate.…

Quoting Jeremy Keith

https://simonwillison.net/2024/Sep/17/jeremy-keith/#atom-everything

Published: September 17, 2024 18:15

Something that I confirmed that other conference organisers are also experiencing is last-minute ticket sales. This is something that happened with UX London this year. For most of the year, ticket sales were trickling along. Then in the last few weeks…

Supercharging Developer Productivity with ChatGPT and Claude with Simon Willison

https://simonwillison.net/2024/Sep/17/supercharging-developer-productivity/#atom-everything

Published: September 17, 2024 16:21

Supercharging Developer Productivity with ChatGPT and Claude with Simon Willison I'm the guest for the latest episode of the TWIML AI podcast - This Week in Machine Learning & AI, hosted by Sam Charrington. We mainly talked about how I use LLM tooling for…

Quoting Bryan Cantrill

https://simonwillison.net/2024/Sep/17/bryan-cantrill/#atom-everything

Published: September 17, 2024 16:14

Do not fall into the trap of anthropomorphizing Larry Ellison. You need to think of Larry Ellison the way you think of a lawnmower. You don’t anthropomorphize your lawnmower, the lawnmower just mows the lawn - you stick your hand in there and it’ll chop it…

Quoting Riley Goodside

https://simonwillison.net/2024/Sep/16/riley-goodside/#atom-everything

Published: September 16, 2024 17:28

o1 prompting is alien to me. Its thinking, gloriously effective at times, is also dreamlike and unamenable to advice. Just say what you want and pray. Any notes on “how” will be followed with the diligence of a brilliant intern on ketamine.— Riley Goodside…

UV — I am (somewhat) sold

https://simonwillison.net/2024/Sep/15/uv-i-am-somewhat-sold/#atom-everything

Published: September 15, 2024 14:54

UV — I am (somewhat) sold Oliver Andrich's detailed notes on adopting uv. Oliver has some pretty specific requirements: I need to have various Python versions installed locally to test my work and my personal projects. Ranging from Python 3.8 to 3.13.…

HOW TO SUCCEED IN MRBEAST PRODUCTION (leaked PDF)

https://simonwillison.net/2024/Sep/15/how-to-succeed-in-mrbeast-production/#atom-everything

Published: September 15, 2024 14:37

HOW TO SUCCEED IN MRBEAST PRODUCTION (leaked PDF) Whether or not you enjoy MrBeast’s format of YouTube videos (here’s a 2022 Rolling Stone profile if you’re unfamiliar), this leaked onboarding document for new members of his production company is a…

Speed matters

https://simonwillison.net/2024/Sep/15/speed-matters/#atom-everything

Published: September 15, 2024 08:58

Speed matters Jamie Brandon in 2021, talking about the importance of optimizing for the speed at which you can work as a developer: Being 10x faster also changes the kinds of projects that are worth doing. Last year I spent something like 100 hours…

Quoting Terrence Tao

https://simonwillison.net/2024/Sep/15/terrence-tao/#atom-everything

Published: September 15, 2024 00:04

[… OpenAI’s o1] could work its way to a correct (and well-written) solution if provided a lot of hints and prodding, but did not generate the key conceptual ideas on its own, and did make some non-trivial mistakes. The experience seemed roughly on par with…

Quoting Andrej Karpathy

https://simonwillison.net/2024/Sep/14/andrej-karpathy/#atom-everything

Published: September 14, 2024 19:50

It's a bit sad and confusing that LLMs ("Large Language Models") have little to do with language; It's just historical. They are highly general purpose technology for statistical modeling of token streams. A better name would be Autoregressive Transformers…

Quoting Noam Brown, OpenAI

https://simonwillison.net/2024/Sep/13/noam-brown/#atom-everything

Published: September 13, 2024 11:35

Believe it or not, the name Strawberry does not come from the “How many r’s are in strawberry” meme. We just chose a random word. As far as we know it was a complete coincidence.— Noam Brown, OpenAI Tags: o1, generative-ai, openai, ai, llms

Quoting Pamela McCorduck, in 1979

https://simonwillison.net/2024/Sep/13/pamela-mccorduck-in-1979/#atom-everything

Published: September 13, 2024 07:49

There is superstition about creativity, and for that matter, about thinking in every sense, and it's part of the history of the field of artificial intelligence that every time somebody figured out how to make a computer do something - play good checkers,…

Quoting Jason Wei (OpenAI)

https://simonwillison.net/2024/Sep/12/jason-wei-openai/#atom-everything

Published: September 12, 2024 23:45

o1-mini is the most surprising research result I've seen in the past year Obviously I cannot spill the secret, but a small model getting >60% on AIME math competition is so good that it's hard to believe— Jason Wei (OpenAI) Tags: o1, generative-ai,…

Notes on OpenAI's new o1 chain-of-thought models

https://simonwillison.net/2024/Sep/12/openai-o1/#atom-everything

Published: September 12, 2024 22:36

OpenAI released two major new preview models today: o1-preview and o1-mini (that mini one is also a preview, despite the name) - previously rumored as having the codename "strawberry". There's a lot to understand about these models - they're not as simple…

Pixtral 12B

https://simonwillison.net/2024/Sep/11/pixtral/#atom-everything

Published: September 11, 2024 22:18

Pixtral 12B Mistral finally have a multi-modal (image + text) vision LLM! I linked to their tweet, but there’s not much to see there - in now classic Mistral style they released the new model with an otherwise unlabeled link to a torrent download. A more…