simon,
@simon@simonwillison.net avatar

New release of my LLM command-line tool, adding support for the new GPT-4o model released by @OpenAI this morning:

pipx install llm
llm keys set openai

Paste API key here

llm -m 4o "Fascinate me"

To upgrade an existing installation, run this:

llm install --upgrade llm

Release notes here: https://llm.datasette.io/en/stable/changelog.html#v0-14

$ llm -m 4o 'fascinate me' Certainly! Would you like to be fascinated by science, history, art, nature, or something else? Here's a little taste of each: Science: Did you know that the concept of a multiverse suggests that there might be infinite universes coexisting with ours? Each one could have different physical laws and constants. One of the mind-boggling interpretations of quantum mechanics, the "many-worlds" hypothesis, proposes that every possible outcome of a quantum event actually occurs, but in separate, parallel universes History: In the ancient Library of Alexandria, scholars produced a device known as the Antikythera mechanism, often called the world's first analog computer. Dating back to around 100 BC, this complex device was used to predict astronomical positions and eclipses for calendrical and astrological purposes. It had over 30 meshing bronze gears Art: The Sistine Chapel's ceiling, painted by Michelangelo, is one of the most renowned artistic achievements in history. Michelangelo spent about four years (1508-1512) on scaffolding to complete this masterpiece. Remarkably, he considered himself a sculptor rather than a painter Nature: The mantis shrimp is a small marine crustacean with the most complex visual system known. It has 16 color-receptive cones (humans have only three), allowing it to see a spectrum of color unimaginable to us. Moreover, it has specialized appendages that can strike with the speed of a bullet, making them formidable predators

szescstopni,
@szescstopni@qoto.org avatar

@simon @willmcgugan The mantis shrimp story has been challenged, they indeed have more types of color receptors than humans, but https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2014.14578. As for the Antikythera mechanism – it has been linked to Corinth, not Egypt, but the jump to the Library of Alexandria seems to traceable: Corinth -> Pergamon -> Library of Pergamon -> yeah, that famous ancient library, there was only one. Both those subjects are fascinating, putting them through the word-grinder makes them flat and tasteless.

simon,
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@szescstopni @willmcgugan that's pretty much as expected, LLMs can't be trusted to spit out accurate facts

Like asking a drunk but well-read college student at a bar what their favourite surprisingly facts are

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