In "You Exist In The Long Context," Steven Johnson explores the advancements in large language models (LLMs), particularly the significant impact of long context windows. Johnson illustrates this progress by creating an interactive game based on his book, showcasing the LLM's ability to handle complex narratives and maintain factual accuracy. He draws a parallel between...
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The Model Context Protocol
Anthropic's Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open-source standard for connecting AI assistants to various data sources. MCP employs a client-server architecture, enabling two-way communication between AI applications (clients) and data providers (servers) via different transports like stdio and HTTP with SSE. The protocol facilitates access to resources, tools, and prompts, enhancing AI response relevance...
Anthropic’s Enhanced Writing Styles
Anthropic's Claude AI has been updated with a "styles" feature, allowing users to customise the AI's communication style by pre-selecting formal, concise, or explanatory modes, or by uploading custom examples. This personalisation approach differentiates Claude from competitors like ChatGPT and Gemini, who maintain a single conversational style. Anthropic highlights its commitment to data privacy, stating...
Blurry, morphing and surreal – a new AI aesthetic is emerging in film
Type text into AI image and video generators, and you’ll often see outputs of unusual, sometimes creepy, pictures. In a way, this is a feature, not a bug, of generative AI. And artists are wielding this aesthetic to create a new storytelling art form. The tools, such as Midjourney to generate images, Runway and Sora...
TinyTroupe: Simulating Human Behaviour with AI
Microsoft has released TinyTroupe, an open-source Python library that uses large language models to simulate human behaviour in virtual environments. This allows for testing digital advertising, software, and generating synthetic data for machine learning. The library enables the simulation of multiple AI agents ("TinyPersons") with individual personalities interacting within a simulated world ("TinyWorld"), facilitating virtual...
Five Useful and Fun NotebookLM Hacks
Google’s NotebookLM has taken the tech world by storm over the past few months. By simply uploading your sources, NotebookLM becomes an instant expert—grounding its responses in your material and offering powerful ways to transform information. Plus, since it’s your notebook, your personal data remains entirely private and isn’t used to train the AI. One...
Claude 3.5 Computer Use: The AI That Sees and Controls Your Computer
Imagine an AI that can navigate your computer just like you do, using only its "eyes" to understand and interact with the screen. That's exactly what Claude 3.5 Computer Use aims to achieve. It can tackle various tasks, from browsing the web to conquering challenges in video games, all without relying on traditional methods like...
From Boom to Bust: Is Generative AI Killing Freelance Work?
Generative AI is transforming industries, and the online freelance market is no exception. Recent research explores the immediate effects of tools like ChatGPT and AI-driven image generators on freelance job opportunities. By analyzing job postings on a major freelancing platform, the study reveals a striking decline in demand for roles in writing, software development, and...
Magentic-One by Microsoft – GUI Automation Ante Portas
Magentic-One by Microsoft, is an open-source, multi-agent system designed to solve complex tasks using artificial intelligence. Magentic-One utilises a team of specialised agents, each possessing unique skills like web browsing, file handling, and code execution, all coordinated by an Orchestrator agent. This modular design allows for flexibility and extensibility, enabling the system to adapt to...
The llms.txt Standard and the Rise of Human-AI Infrastructure
The World Wide Web stands at the threshold of a profound transformation. A new proposal called llms.txt signals the emergence of something remarkable: a web that serves not just human readers, but artificial intelligences as first-class citizens. This isn't merely another technical standard—it's the beginning of a fundamental shift in how we think about digital...
