Posts tagged "llms"
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How AI Broke Aristotle
Read moreIt's hard to describe abstract ideas like the fragility of society's understanding of personhood. But in an attempt to do so, I'd like to invite you on a thought experiment with me.
Imagine you had a time machine and could go back in time to another era of human history. In this case, you need to go all the way back to… 2017. That's far enough to reach a time before the first large language models (LLMs) were introduced.
Having traveled back to that far-distant time, now imagine yourself walking around your neighborhood. As you walk, you happen upon a snippet of writing. It could be on a slip of paper on the ground, it could be a random tweet on your phone, it could be any medium at all. Even without knowing any context or background of the writing you found, if that writing contains a coherent thought expressed in language then you know something incredibly significant: it was written by a person.
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The Power of LLM Context
Read moreToday I learned how much leverage you can gain by using a tool that automates feeding context to an LLM.
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o3-mini Is Really Good at Software Documentation (Link)
Read moreSimon Willison recently tested OpenAI's relatively-new model o3-mini by pointing it at the source code for his Datasette project (about 14,000 lines) and giving it a very simple prompt: