Tag: information retrieval

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Benedict Evans

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Feb/2/benedict-evans/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Benedict Evans Feedly Summary: Part of the concept of ‘Disruption’ is that important new technologies tend to be bad at the things that matter to the previous generation of technology, but they do something else important instead. Asking if an LLM can do very specific and…

  • Hacker News: OpenAI just put the final nail in the coffin of the open World Wide Web

    Source URL: https://brids.bearblog.dev/openai-just-put-the-final-nail-in-the-coffin-of-the-open-world-wide-web/ Source: Hacker News Title: OpenAI just put the final nail in the coffin of the open World Wide Web Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the implications of OpenAI’s release of its web-browsing agent, Operator, suggesting that it may endanger the traditional open internet model by…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: llm-gemini 0.9

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/22/llm-gemini/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: llm-gemini 0.9 Feedly Summary: llm-gemini 0.9 This new release of my llm-gemini plugin adds support for two new experimental models: learnlm-1.5-pro-experimental is “an experimental task-specific model that has been trained to align with learning science principles when following system instructions for teaching and learning use cases" –…

  • Hacker News: Google is making AI in Gmail and Docs free – but raising the price of Workspace

    Source URL: https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/15/24343794/google-workspace-ai-features-free Source: Hacker News Title: Google is making AI in Gmail and Docs free – but raising the price of Workspace Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Google is now offering its AI features integrated into Workspace for free, though it has increased the overall pricing for Workspace plans. This…

  • Hacker News: AI Engineer Reading List

    Source URL: https://www.latent.space/p/2025-papers Source: Hacker News Title: AI Engineer Reading List Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text focuses on providing a curated reading list for AI engineers, particularly emphasizing recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) and related AI technologies. It is a practical guide designed to enhance the knowledge…

  • Slashdot: Futurist Predicts AI-Powered ‘Digital Superpowers’ by 2030

    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/01/12/0432243/futurist-predicts-ai-powered-digital-superpowers-by-2030 Source: Slashdot Title: Futurist Predicts AI-Powered ‘Digital Superpowers’ by 2030 Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the future of context-aware AI technologies, particularly through body-worn devices, which are projected to enhance human capabilities by 2030. This development brings significant implications for security and privacy, especially as AI…

  • Hacker News: Magna: Embedding similarity search tool for searching within large documents

    Source URL: https://github.com/yousef-rafat/Magna Source: Hacker News Title: Magna: Embedding similarity search tool for searching within large documents Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text provides insights into a tool named Magna, which employs Embedding Similarity Search, a method leveraged in large language models (LLMs). This functionality allows for semantically understanding and…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Open WebUI

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/27/open-webui/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Open WebUI Feedly Summary: Open WebUI I tried out this open source (MIT licensed, JavaScript and Python) localhost UI for accessing LLMs today for the first time. It’s very nicely done. I ran it with uvx like this: uvx –python 3.11 open-webui serve On first launch it…

  • Hacker News: Build Your Own AI-Powered Document Chatbot in Minutes with Simple RAG

    Source URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42504661 Source: Hacker News Title: Build Your Own AI-Powered Document Chatbot in Minutes with Simple RAG Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text describes a project that allows users to create an AI-powered chatbot for document analysis using a Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) framework. This is particularly relevant for…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: q and qv zsh functions for asking questions of websites and YouTube videos with LLM

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/19/q-and-qv-zsh-functions/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: q and qv zsh functions for asking questions of websites and YouTube videos with LLM Feedly Summary: q and qv zsh functions for asking questions of websites and YouTube videos with LLM Spotted these in David Gasquez’s zshrc dotfiles: two shell functions that use my LLM tool…