@skinnylatte So do they use Zoom, Google Meet, or something else? Just curious.
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Published some notes on Docling, a rather nice MIT licensed Python PDF document / table extraction library from IBM https://simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/3/docling/@simon How does the Markdown output from Docling compare with the HTML that you've gotten out of Gemini for PDF documents? Does Docling do a good job of recognizing headings, lists, etc.?
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Anthropic released a fascinating new capability today called "Computer Use" - a mode of their Claude 3.5 Sonnet model where it can do things like accept screenshots of a remotely operated computer and send back commands to click on specific coordinates...@samueljohn @simon I'm skeptical about whether natural-language instruction-following really works that well. At bottom, it's still predicting the next token by turning words (or partial words) into vectors and calculating relationships between those vectors, right? Can deep understanding of complex instructions really emerge from that? I'm with Gary Marcus on this; I doubt it.
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I really like Drew's framework here dividing current AI use-cases into Gods (human replacement, which I think of as still mostly science fiction), Interns (assistants you delegate closely-reviewed tasks to, which is most of how I use LLMs today) and Co... -
I really like Drew's framework here dividing current AI use-cases into Gods (human replacement, which I think of as still mostly science fiction), Interns (assistants you delegate closely-reviewed tasks to, which is most of how I use LLMs today) and Co...@simon @forrestbrazeal I don't think I ever actually felt the anger. And I feel kind of guilty about that, because of course some people have decided to stop there and fight against AI, and they have such moral certainty about it.
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I really like Drew's framework here dividing current AI use-cases into Gods (human replacement, which I think of as still mostly science fiction), Interns (assistants you delegate closely-reviewed tasks to, which is most of how I use LLMs today) and Co...@simon You sure you linked to the right song? Have you gone through the kind of existential crisis portrayed in that song? I always saw you as being cautiously optimistic about AI, that it can be a useful tool if used well, but not making us redundant.
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I really like Drew's framework here dividing current AI use-cases into Gods (human replacement, which I think of as still mostly science fiction), Interns (assistants you delegate closely-reviewed tasks to, which is most of how I use LLMs today) and Co...@simon For the "gods" category, also check out @forrestbrazeal's excellent song "AGI (Artificial God Incarnate)": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZhhO7MGknQ
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Just yesterday, I saw a boost of someone suggesting "grand theft autocomplete" as an apt phrase for describing what large language models (such as ChatGPT and Claude) do.Just yesterday, I saw a boost of someone suggesting "grand theft autocomplete" as an apt phrase for describing what large language models (such as ChatGPT and Claude) do. But now I can't remember who said it. The phrase doesn't yet seem to be common enough to yield a useful result when doing a DuckDuckGo search for it.
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For static websites, is there any kind of open standard for announcing that it's a static site, making all of the files on the site easily discoverable without recursive crawling, and ideally, also offering the full site in a form that can be downloade...For static websites, is there any kind of open standard for announcing that it's a static site, making all of the files on the site easily discoverable without recursive crawling, and ideally, also offering the full site in a form that can be downloaded as a single archive?
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@simon Love your blog and super admire your work!