Willison, Simon
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- The Problem is Defining the Problem; The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Caring … There’s a big continuum here! On one end you have my friends Jesse Vincent and Simon Willison, who are more or less forging ahead at using agentic …
- An End Of Year Opinion About AI Because Why Not; Good Enough Mitigation of Reasonably Foreseeable Harm … through using specific agentic coding tools (the ones I’m aware about are Simon Willison and Jesse Vincent, who are in and of themselves 10x developers [sic] whether …
- Just Enough World Model; Actually, it’s about Federalism … Letting token stream modeler drive browsers, as demonstrated in Simon Willison’s early use of Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 API, Computer Use [13] I tried to figure …
- How old things keep living; Impossible AI; Look, just call it AI … archive.is ) ↩︎ It’s OK to call it Artificial Intelligence ( archive.is ), Simon Willison, Simon Willison’s Weblog, 7 January, 2024 ↩︎ ChatGPT incorrectly diagnosed more than 8 in …
- Free-range, Organic, and Natural; The Original Promise … back I imagined early 90s print ads for Data TinyHouse, a rebranding of Simon Willison's Datasette and made an album of them on Flickr [9] . Just going …
- Tech Journalism, But Not Tech Journalism; Sounds More Like A You Problem … 1.2 Sounds More Like A You Problem Three things via Simon Willison's weblog: Finding Bathroom Faucets using Embeddings Emily Bender on replacing the term AI with …
- The Best To-Do List or Project Management Software Is The One That Works For You Right Now … objects in the real world, not alone with virtual objects on screens ↩︎ Bing: “I will not harm you unless you harm me first”, Simon Willison, 15 February 2023 ↩︎
- Biblically Accurate AI, or, Hey ChatGPT, Bury This News For Me … The other recent thing is Simon Willison's recent experiments with GitHub CoPilot [5] . Here is a stupendously simplistic explanation of what ChatGPT and other large language models …
- Your Timeline needs a DJ; Enough … Best, Dan TikTok’s Secret ‘Heating’ Button Can Make Anyone Go Viral , Emily Baker-White, Forbes, 20 January, 2023 ↩︎ Simon Willison , simonwillison.net, 25 January, 2023 ↩︎ Daily Me …
- Some Combination of Efficiency and Expediency … On the other hand, Simon Willison continues to inspire by creating semantic search by what I can only inexpertly describe as expertly mashing up Datasette and the GPT …
- HBO Max is Upside Down; Bits and Pieces … fully automated luxury space communism future, people will do jobs just for fun" Simon Willison has done it again and created shot-scraper-template , a one-shot way …
- Steven Wolfram Is Probably Busying Figuring Out How To Turn A Cellular Automata Into Blogging Platform … Plus I just realized you could use the Levenshtein distance in cracking Wordles. ( Via Simon Willison ) An oral history of Contact on New York Magazine's Vulture, which …
- Mist, everywhere … Dates and Old News A couple days ago, Jacobian asked for ways to deal with old, outdated blog posts , Simon Willison answered that he’d make sure the …
- Tattletales, or, OK Google, what do you have on me? … There’s another thought that it prompts which I think is Simon Willison-bait, more recently of Datasettte , which is: what are the good visual tools for interrogating …