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Simon Willison: evaluation

12 Jan 2025 Latent Space [Ride Home] Simon Willison: Things we learned about LLMs in 2024

“[01:10:00] year. This one's interesting as well, because the thing that makes these interesting is multimodal, like audio input, video input, image input, which a year ago was hardly a thing, and now it's dirt cheap.”

— Simon Willison

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Simon Willison
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12 Jan 2025
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Latent Space

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…And there will be a lot more of these. I would add to that because Swyx, as you know, because you listen to my show the idea that AI has taken the smart glasses and completely changed everyone's mind about that as a product category and form factor. And I should say this. From things that I've been looking at investing in wait till you see what they can add on to earbuds. Like, like the earbuds in your ear can do a lot more things than they're doing now and then you combine that with smart glasses, And you combine that with an LLM that you can access, maybe with a a phone as like the, the mothership. There's some interesting things. The CES next year is gonna be crazy if you think wearables are crazy. AI wearables are a thing. Anyway, this year they were not a thing. were [01:10:00] year. This one's interesting as well, because the thing that makes these interesting is multimodal, like audio input, video input, image input, which a year ago was hardly a thing, and now it's dirt cheap. So yeah, we're 12 months ago to build the software behind this stuff. Yeah, all right. Let's let's let's bring this to a landing. Swyx, go first. Tell everybody about obviously your podcast, which hopefully we're simulcasting, but also your conferences, events, everything. And that right as I said, or I think I said online or on air that I saw Simon speak at one of your events last year. Wait Swyx, just say again, it's in February. It's in New York City. I'm going to be there if that matters to anybody, if that's an attraction, but what's the dates on that and how to apply. And to sign up to attend what website can I go to? Yeah, it's apply. ai. engineer. All right, Simon, I'm gonna, I'm gonna hold hand you, or handhold you even more. Your weblog is simonwillison. net, but what else would you like us to know or, or go find out about what you're doing?…

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