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Here's my end-of-year review of things we learned about LLMs in 2024 - we learned a LOT of things https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/31/llms-in-2024/

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Things we learned about LLMs in 2024

A lot has happened in the world of Large Language Models over the course of 2024. Here’s a review of things we figured out about the field in the past …

Simon Willison’s Weblog

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Erik Moeller Dec 31

@simon

Excellent summary. I would add:

- vast, increasing numbers of recreational chatbot users (multiple 10M user category apps now); also increasing adoption of chatbots explicitly intended to be therapeutic

- massive adoption for search (Perplexity now valued at $9B, in large part due to continuing user growth); development of deep research tools like Gemini's & Scite.AI

- more learning/exploration focused models and applications (LearnLM, Perplexity pages, etc.).

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Scott Jenson

@eloquence @simon Thank you for these references! I'm reading "The Future" by Naomi Alderman and she has a bonkers interpretation of the biblical story of Lot from Genesis. I used scite.ai to give me a summary, from Ms. Alderman's POV and got an amazing answer, with references! This feels so powerful, I can "reach into" books and get a more nuanced understanding of what it going on.