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Tag: Large Language Models (LLMs)

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Exploring Promptfoo via Dave Guarino’s SNAP evals

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/24/exploring-promptfoo/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Exploring Promptfoo via Dave Guarino’s SNAP evals Feedly Summary: I used part three (here’s parts one and two) of Dave Guarino’s series on evaluating how well LLMs can answer questions about SNAP (aka food stamps) as an excuse to explore Promptfoo, an LLM eval tool. SNAP (Supplemental…

  • Slashdot: Google AI Fabricates Explanations For Nonexistent Idioms

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    Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/04/24/1853256/google-ai-fabricates-explanations-for-nonexistent-idioms?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Google AI Fabricates Explanations For Nonexistent Idioms Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses flaws in large language models (LLMs) as demonstrated by Google’s search AI generating plausible explanations for nonexistent idioms. This highlights the risks associated with AI-generated content and the tendency of LLMs…

  • The Register: AI training license will allow LLM builders to pay for content they consume

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/24/uk_publishing_body_launches_ai/ Source: The Register Title: AI training license will allow LLM builders to pay for content they consume Feedly Summary: UK org backing it promises ‘legal certainty’ for devs, money for creators… but is it too late? A UK non-profit is planning to introduce a new licensing model which will allow developers of…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: llm-fragment-symbex

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/23/llm-fragment-symbex/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: llm-fragment-symbex Feedly Summary: llm-fragment-symbex I released a new LLM fragment loader plugin that builds on top of my Symbex project. Symbex is a CLI tool I wrote that can run against a folder full of Python code and output functions, classes, methods or just their docstrings and…

  • Cloud Blog: Google Cloud Database and LangChain integrations now support Go, Java, and JavaScript

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/google-cloud-database-and-langchain-integrations-support-go-java-and-javascript/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Google Cloud Database and LangChain integrations now support Go, Java, and JavaScript Feedly Summary: Last year, Google Cloud and LangChain announced integrations that give generative AI developers access to a suite of LangChain Python packages. This allowed application developers to leverage Google Cloud’s database portfolio in their gen…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: AI assisted search-based research actually works now

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/21/ai-assisted-search/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: AI assisted search-based research actually works now Feedly Summary: For the past two and a half years the feature I’ve most wanted from LLMs is the ability to take on search-based research tasks on my behalf. We saw the first glimpses of this back in early 2023,…

  • The Register: Everything you need to get up and running with MCP – Anthropic’s USB-C for AI

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/21/mcp_guide/ Source: The Register Title: Everything you need to get up and running with MCP – Anthropic’s USB-C for AI Feedly Summary: Wrangling your data into LLMs just got easier, though it’s not all sunshine and rainbows Hands On Getting large language models to actually do something useful usually means wiring them up…

  • Slashdot: Can You Run the Llama 2 LLM on DOS?

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    Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/04/21/0026255/can-you-run-the-llama-2-llm-on-dos Source: Slashdot Title: Can You Run the Llama 2 LLM on DOS? Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text revolves around an innovative project by an embedded security researcher who successfully ported Llama 2, a large language model (LLM), to run on vintage DOS machines. This challenges the conventional…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: MCP Run Python

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/18/mcp-run-python/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: MCP Run Python Feedly Summary: MCP Run Python Pydantic AI’s MCP server for running LLM-generated Python code in a sandbox. They ended up using a trick I explored two years ago: using a Deno process to run Pyodide in a WebAssembly sandbox. Here’s a bit of a…