I added multi-modal (image, audio, video) support to my LLM command-line tool and Python library, so now you can use it to run all sorts of content through LLMs such as GPT-4o, Claude and Google Gemini
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Simon Willisonreplied to Simon Willison last edited by [email protected]
If you are still LLM-skeptical but haven't spent much time thinking about or experimenting with these multi-modal variants I'd encourage you to take a look at them
Being able to extract information from images, audio and video is a truly amazing capability, and something which was previously prohibitively difficult - see XKCD 1425 https://xkcd.com/1425/
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Simon Willisonreplied to Simon Willison last edited by
The LLM Python library supports attachments now as well https://llm.datasette.io/en/stable/python-api.html#attachments
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Prem Kumar Aparanji 👶🤖🐘replied to Simon Willison last edited by
@simon neat!
Where can I look at the code behind this function?
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Simon Willisonreplied to Prem Kumar Aparanji 👶🤖🐘 last edited by
@prem_k more docs here: https://llm.datasette.io/en/stable/plugins/advanced-model-plugins.html#attachments-for-multi-modal-models
Implementations are spread out across different plugins, eg https://github.com/simonw/llm/blob/a44ba49c21f8d4ac30c8e41bfa5599c258ce53cc/llm/default_plugins/openai_models.py#L338 and https://github.com/simonw/llm-gemini/blob/ce82727a6950c7769a8e40bf030591d0e6f83e5e/llm_gemini.py#L135
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@simon Note that some of us are skeptical for reasons such as the exploitation of creative folks, the copyright infringements at scale, the hype cycle created by venture capital, the impact it has on misinformation and the ads space, and so on. Some of the tech is cool no doubt.
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@djh those are all very valid reasons to be skeptical!
The only reason I'll consistently push back at is the idea that these things aren't useful at all
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@djh @simon
Some are also skeptical because research demonstrates that LLMs are not reasoning
https://youtu.be/TpfXFEP0aFsbut instead are regurgitating memorised answers
https://youtu.be/y1WnHpedi2Aamong other problems of which users should be made aware before placing all their trust in the generated response
https://youtu.be/7bmhjt1cpRs -
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@simon note that the capability is dangerously untrustworthy (and when you don't mention this or any of the other concerns like environmental harm or creative theft, "check this out if you're still skeptical" comes across as condescending) https://www.engadget.com/ai/openais-whisper-invents-parts-of-transcriptions--a-lot-120039028.html
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@aburka from my post:
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@simon I mean, they've been evaluated, they're not suitable. What's left to explore?
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@aburka since you ask, I did dig around in one of the papers underlying the other story and found it was partly about how much better whisper v3 was compared to v2 https://fedi.simonwillison.net/@simon/113380266881069878
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Simon Willisonreplied to Simon Willison last edited by
@aburka generally though the most important thing about using LLMs (and AI/machine learning models in general) is figuring out how to make effective and responsible use of inherently unreliable technology
Generating unreviewed medical transcripts and then throwing away the original recordings is NOT responsible
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@simon Does video work? I tried both Gemini pro and flash, but I only got some error message. Do I need a paid account to use video scraping? (Image works as expected.)
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@xsc video should work, what file format were you trying? Currently needs to be less than 20MB - that's a temporary limitation of my llm-gemini plugin
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@simon I was using an MP4 of 5 mb size. The error just says "internal error" I downloaded the video from here https://www.pexels.com/video/catching-and-releasing-a-big-carp-fish-in-the-lake-5538137/
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@xsc I've seen a few of those "Internal error" messages too - I think it's Gemini being a little bit flaky, sometimes resubmitting works fine the second time
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@florenciocano @djh @simon
Just not very useful for solving maths problems that haven't already been solved and scraped into the training data
https://youtu.be/8_Nr5oKIAmI
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@bornach @florenciocano @djh media right - LLMs are notoriously bad at math (and logic puzzles too)
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@simon I was using the following command
> llm 'please explain what is happening in the video' -a man-in-water.mp4 -m gemini-1.5-flash-latest
Does it look like it should work?
