Experimental News Clipping Site

Tag: effectiveness

  • Cloud Blog: How Conversational Agents and Looker can boost contact center efficiency and enhance constituent services

    —

    by

    Kurt Seifried
    in

    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/public-sector/how-conversational-agents-and-looker-can-boost-contact-center-efficiency-and-enhance-constituent-services/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: How Conversational Agents and Looker can boost contact center efficiency and enhance constituent services Feedly Summary: Conversational agents are transforming the way public sector agencies engage with constituents — enabling new levels of hyper-personalization, multimodal conversations, and improving interactions across touchpoints. And this is just the beginning. Our…

  • The Register: Australia finds age detection tech has many flaws but will work

    —

    by

    Kurt Seifried
    in

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/20/australia_age_assurance_trial_findings/ Source: The Register Title: Australia finds age detection tech has many flaws but will work Feedly Summary: Probe into how to implement social media ban finds privacy risks, developer overreach, infosec uncertainties Australia’s trial of age assurance technology has found it’s up to the task of preventing children under 16 years of…

  • Slashdot: Reasoning LLMs Deliver Value Today, So AGI Hype Doesn’t Matter

    —

    by

    Kurt Seifried
    in

    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/06/19/165237/reasoning-llms-deliver-value-today-so-agi-hype-doesnt-matter?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Reasoning LLMs Deliver Value Today, So AGI Hype Doesn’t Matter Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The commentary by Simon Willison highlights a debate surrounding the effectiveness and applicability of large language models (LLMs), particularly in the context of their limitations and the recent critiques by various…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Coding agents require skilled operators

    —

    by

    Kurt Seifried
    in

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/18/coding-agents/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Coding agents require skilled operators Feedly Summary: I wrote this recently in a conversation about whether coding agents can work as a replacement for human programmers. The “agentic" coding tools we have right now work like this: A skilled individual with both deep domain understanding and deep…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Trying out the new Gemini 2.5 model family

    —

    by

    Kurt Seifried
    in

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/17/gemini-2-5/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Trying out the new Gemini 2.5 model family Feedly Summary: After many months of previews, Gemini 2.5 Pro and Flash have reached general availability with new, memorable model IDs: gemini-2.5-pro and gemini-2.5-flash. They are joined by a new preview model with an unmemorable name: gemini-2.5-flash-lite-preview-06-17 is a…

  • Cloud Blog: Gemini momentum continues with launch of 2.5 Flash-Lite and general availability of 2.5 Flash and Pro on Vertex AI

    —

    by

    Kurt Seifried
    in

    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/gemini-2-5-flash-lite-flash-pro-ga-vertex-ai/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Gemini momentum continues with launch of 2.5 Flash-Lite and general availability of 2.5 Flash and Pro on Vertex AI Feedly Summary: The momentum of the Gemini 2.5 era continues to build. Following our recent announcements, we’re empowering enterprise builders and developers with even greater access to the intelligence,…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: 100% effective

    —

    by

    Kurt Seifried
    in

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/16/100-percent/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: 100% effective Feedly Summary: Every time I get into an online conversation about prompt injection it’s inevitable that someone will argue that a mitigation which works 99% of the time is still worthwhile because there’s no such thing as a security fix that is 100% guaranteed to…