Tag: play

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Ethan Mollick

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/20/ethan-mollick/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Ethan Mollick Feedly Summary: In some tasks, AI is unreliable. In others, it is superhuman. You could, of course, say the same thing about calculators, but it is also clear that AI is different. It is already demonstrating general capabilities and performing a wide range of…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: llm-fragments-github 0.2

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/20/llm-fragments-github/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: llm-fragments-github 0.2 Feedly Summary: llm-fragments-github 0.2 I upgraded my llm-fragments-github plugin to add a new fragment type called issue. It lets you pull the entire content of a GitHub issue thread into your prompt as a concatenated Markdown file. (If you haven’t seen fragments before I introduced…

  • Slashdot: Open Source Advocate Argues DeepSeek is ‘a Movement… It’s Linux All Over Again’

    Source URL: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/04/20/0332214/open-source-advocate-argues-deepseek-is-a-movement-its-linux-all-over-again?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Open Source Advocate Argues DeepSeek is ‘a Movement… It’s Linux All Over Again’ Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the emergence of DeepSeek as an influential open-source AI model and its impact on global collaboration in AI development, particularly highlighting the role of platforms…

  • Slashdot: US Chipmakers Fear Ceding China’s AI Market to Huawei After New Trump Restrictions

    Source URL: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/04/19/2339227/us-chipmakers-fear-ceding-chinas-ai-market-to-huawei-after-new-trump-restrictions?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: US Chipmakers Fear Ceding China’s AI Market to Huawei After New Trump Restrictions Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the implications of the Trump administration’s restrictions on AI chip sales to China, particularly affecting major U.S. companies like Nvidia, AMD, and Intel. The regulations…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Maybe Meta’s Llama claims to be open source because of the EU AI act

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/19/llama-eu-ai-act/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Maybe Meta’s Llama claims to be open source because of the EU AI act Feedly Summary: I encountered a theory a while ago that one of the reasons Meta insist on using the term “open source” for their Llama models despite the Llama license not actually conforming…

  • Slashdot: OpenAI Puzzled as New Models Show Rising Hallucination Rates

    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/04/18/2323216/openai-puzzled-as-new-models-show-rising-hallucination-rates Source: Slashdot Title: OpenAI Puzzled as New Models Show Rising Hallucination Rates Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: OpenAI’s recent AI models, o3 and o4-mini, display increased hallucination rates compared to previous iterations. This raises concerns regarding the reliability of such AI systems in practical applications. The findings emphasize the…

  • Cloud Blog: Supercharge your data the open-source way: Memorystore for Valkey is now GA

    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/announcing-general-availability-of-memorystore-for-valkey/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Supercharge your data the open-source way: Memorystore for Valkey is now GA Feedly Summary: Editor’s note: Ping Xie is a Valkey maintainer on the Valkey Technical Steering Committee (TSC). Memorystore, Google Cloud’s fully managed in-memory service for Valkey, Redis and Memcached, plays an increasingly important role in our…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Image segmentation using Gemini 2.5

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/18/gemini-image-segmentation/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Image segmentation using Gemini 2.5 Feedly Summary: Max Woolf pointed out this new feature of the Gemini 2.5 series in a comment on Hacker News: One hidden note from Gemini 2.5 Flash when diving deep into the documentation: for image inputs, not only can the model be…

  • CSA: Data Security Evolution: From DLP to DSPM

    Source URL: https://cloudsecurityalliance.org/articles/the-evolution-of-data-security-from-traditional-dlp-to-dspm Source: CSA Title: Data Security Evolution: From DLP to DSPM Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the rising significance of Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) in the context of evolving data security challenges faced by organizations, particularly as reliance on AI and cloud services grows. It highlights…

  • Slashdot: ChatGPT Models Are Surprisingly Good At Geoguessing

    Source URL: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/04/17/1941258/chatgpt-models-are-surprisingly-good-at-geoguessing?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: ChatGPT Models Are Surprisingly Good At Geoguessing Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a concerning trend related to the use of OpenAI’s new models, o3 and o4-mini, for deducing locations from images, raising potential privacy issues. The models’ advanced image analysis capabilities combined with…