@simon I love it

@simon Does this mean you're Arnold Schwarzenegger posting under a fake name? I don't believe it. I bet you're a computer programmer pretending to be Arnold!!!

@simon @DDsD this is amazing !

@simon I'm loving your TIL format! This one made my (unpublished) list recently: http://redsymbol.net/articles/bash-exit-traps/

@simon you have no idea how many google searches I sent this week looking for something like this for windows.

Asked ChatGPT to convert to powershell: https://chat.openai.com/share/952e5a0f-3769-4888-9910-93f0453bdf4d

Excited to try it tomorrow. Thanks!

@simon if you trap on the pseudo signal EXIT it will kick in on other exit modes too :)

@simon great talk! thanks for this, i find your work immensely helpful for keeping tabs on what’s going on.

i like to imagine one reason why they might be lenient with licensing violations re improving other models is it would expose them to more liability from exposing how the models were trained 🤔

@simon a nice whirlwind review of some of your experiments, and you got the "you should really know this about LLMs" stuff in there too. Great presentation as always, thanks for sharing!

@simon @NorthBayPython @scottjenson thanks for posting this! I’ve been interested in making my own LLM trained on data that’s important to me, this is super cool!

@simon brew is preferred, but pipx is great for things not big enough to be there.

I do prefer local installs for project-specific tools (like pytest, where I just have many copies of it on my computer). But for general purposes utilities that happen to be written in Python, pipx is perfect.

@simon If it is in python and has a CLI interface, it should be installed with pipx unless you enjoy trouble shooting incompatible libraries. If the tool needs to be able to run `import yourcode`, such as mypy, pydoc, pytest, then you can't install with pipx.

It is still sort of intermediate still level to realize why it should matter & getting pipx itself installed in the first place (or worse trying to update/replace the python that all the pipx apps are using)

@simon I use it, but rarely. I have maybe 2-3 tools installed using it.

@simon I was hoping for a 500 Server Error page. That would do it.

@simon
Maybe it just takes lots of use. I've played with it for long enough to know it is a giant BS generator - but once you know that, you can have fun with it. Last night I had it start generating case law examples for a trial taking place in a D&D scenario I had it writing about

@simon This doesn't really solve the problem, especially since OpenAI is advocating for more uses via their API. The output of these models has to be addressed and that's not something a web UX change can fix. The technology platform itself is unfit for the applications it is being used for.

(If you don't think it's possible for a computer to deliberately lie, take a look at "sycophancy" and "sandbagging" in the field of large language models! https://simonwillison.net/2023/Apr/5/sycophancy-sandbagging/ )

I was having trouble coming up with a system prompt for GPT 3.5 that worked how I wanted... so I got GPT-4 to write one for me, which is working pretty well as a starting point

It's answer to a question about absurdly expensive things to do in Tokyo was, after a follow-up prompt (see second screenshot), most excellent.

@simon no more money

@simon Oh, did you have money in that bank?

@simon that’s an excellent/horrifying wiki-image-capture. “Tell a scary story in one Wikipedia edit” is the new “tell a scary story in six words”.

@simon Let's not call it hallucinate, it's giving it too much credit. Let's just call it what it is, generate.

@simon @drewharwell journalists live for quotes like that. Or they should.

As far as I can tell the only documentation on how to use the JavaScript API is this unofficial documentation here https://github.com/manicmaniac/sips-js-api

If you see a screenshot like this one you can dunk on it all you like but it's NOT the new GPT-3 enhanced Bing: this is something a Bing has been doing poorly for a long time in its existing form

The only downside I can think of here is usability: it's not going to be easy for people to understand WHY they can quote themselves but nobody else

@simon 🤨 ...sometimes Mastodon feels like an Amish community

@simon

Just don't repost about your latest thing a couple times a day for weeks at a time.

@simon Mastodon is filled to the gills with folks who want to police toots.

Unless you’re running a scam, self-promote away, I say! Ignore the haters.

Accidental bonus: I typed my blog entry in VS Code with GitHub Copilot enabled, and at one point Copilot itself helpfully started suggesting crimes for me!

I've decided to extend my personal rule that "the price of doing a project is that you have to write about it" to cover talks as well!

The tag says omlet I can't even.

@simon looking forward to the #ChickensInHiVis calendar for 2023. 🐔🐥

@simon Did she cross the patio safely? 😜