Simon Willison tries out Gemini Pro 1.5 on video, and suggests its 1M token context size opens up powerful new opportunities using video prompts
Using Multimodal AI to Capture and Enrich Heirloom Recipes
I applied OpenAI's GPT-4 Vision model and Chat Completions API to preserve a treasure-trove of legacy family recipes.
Gruber Responds to Gurman's Report of AI Anxiety at Apple
“What I have heard from little birdies in Cupertino is not that there was a miss on this already .... The anxiety inside Apple is that many people inside do not believe Apple’s own AI/ML team can deliver, and that the company — if only for privacy reasons — is only going to use what comes from their own AI/ML team.”
The Ballad of Bull Cook, A Wacky Book
George Leonard Herter's "Bull Cook and Authentic Historical Recipes and Practices" and what it tells us about copyright and a new (to me) flavor of Amazon scam.
Cloudflare CAPTCHA Hell
Cloudflare's CAPTCHA nonsense: a sign they're getting too dominant?