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Simon Willison
@simonwillison.net

If you read nothing else about AI this week, read this - absolutely fascinating, ties together a whole bunch of recent developments in the field Wrote my own notes here but really this piece defies summarization, you should absorb the whole thing simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/19/...

Arvind Narayanan@randomwalker.bsky.social

New AI Snake Oil essay: Last month the AI industry's narrative suddenly flipped — model scaling is dead, but "inference scaling" is taking over. This has left people outside AI confused. What changed? Is AI capability progress slowing? We look at the evidence. 🧵 www.aisnakeoil.com/p/is-ai-prog...

Robert Atkins
@ratkins.net

@richardelm.bsky.social The point about applications is well-made and important. I’m building atop LLMs and transformer models and the tools are stone knives-and-bearskins level of sophistication, we’ve barely even scratched the surface of what prompting can do, let alone rigorous testing.

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