Tag: Generative AI

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Ethan Mollick

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/2/ethan-mollick/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Ethan Mollick Feedly Summary: After publishing this piece, I was contacted by Anthropic who told me that Sonnet 3.7 would not be considered a 10^26 FLOP model and cost a few tens of millions of dollars to train, though future models will be much bigger. —…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Notes from my Accessibility and Gen AI podcast appearence

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/2/accessibility-and-gen-ai/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Notes from my Accessibility and Gen AI podcast appearence Feedly Summary: I was a guest on the most recent episode of the Accessibility + Gen AI Podcast, hosted by Eamon McErlean and Joe Devon. We had a really fun, wide-ranging conversation about a host of different topics.…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Kellan Elliott-McCrea

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/2/kellan-elliott-mccrea/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Kellan Elliott-McCrea Feedly Summary: Regarding the recent blog post, I think a simpler explanation is that hallucinating a non-existent library is a such an inhuman error it throws people. A human making such an error would be almost unforgivably careless. — Kellan Elliott-McCrea Tags: ai-assisted-programming, generative-ai,…

  • Slashdot: 27-Year-Old EXE Became Python In Minutes. Is AI-Assisted Reverse Engineering Next?

    Source URL: https://developers.slashdot.org/story/25/03/01/2211210/27-year-old-exe-became-python-in-minutes-is-ai-assisted-reverse-engineering-next?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: 27-Year-Old EXE Became Python In Minutes. Is AI-Assisted Reverse Engineering Next? Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: This text discusses a remarkable case of using AI (Claude 3.7) to reverse-engineer a 27-year-old Visual Basic application and rewrite it in Python. This showcases the potential of generative AI…

  • Hacker News: Microsoft Copilot continues to expose private GitHub repositories

    Source URL: https://www.developer-tech.com/news/microsoft-copilot-continues-to-expose-private-github-repositories/ Source: Hacker News Title: Microsoft Copilot continues to expose private GitHub repositories Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The investigation by Lasso into claims about ChatGPT accessing private GitHub repositories highlighted critical concerns regarding data privacy and the phenomenon known as “Zombie Data.” This situation underscores the risks of…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: llm-anthropic #24: Use new URL parameter to send attachments

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/1/llm-anthropic/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: llm-anthropic #24: Use new URL parameter to send attachments Feedly Summary: llm-anthropic #24: Use new URL parameter to send attachments Anthropic released a neat quality of life improvement today. Alex Albert: We’ve added the ability to specify a public facing URL as the source for an image…

  • Hacker News: Google’s Sergey Brin: Engineers Should Work 60-Hour Weeks in Office to Build AI

    Source URL: https://gizmodo.com/googles-sergey-brin-says-engineers-should-work-60-hour-weeks-in-office-to-build-ai-that-could-replace-them-2000570025 Source: Hacker News Title: Google’s Sergey Brin: Engineers Should Work 60-Hour Weeks in Office to Build AI Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Sergey Brin’s recent directive to Google engineers to return to the office five days a week underscores the urgency to enhance AI models in a competitive…

  • Slashdot: US Workers See AI-Induced Productivity Growth, Fed Survey Shows

    Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/02/28/1817248/us-workers-see-ai-induced-productivity-growth-fed-survey-shows?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: US Workers See AI-Induced Productivity Growth, Fed Survey Shows Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Recent research indicates that the utilization of generative AI significantly enhances worker productivity, with findings revealing an average productivity increase of 33% per hour of AI usage. The study highlights substantial time…

  • Cloud Blog: Dynamic 5G services, made possible by AI and intent-based automation

    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/telecommunications/how-dynamic-5g-services-are-possible-with-ai/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Dynamic 5G services, made possible by AI and intent-based automation Feedly Summary: The emergence of 5G networks opens a new frontier for connectivity, enabling advanced use cases that require ultra-low-latency, enhanced mobile broadband, and the Internet of Things (IoT) at scale. However, behind the promise of this hyper-connected…