[$] Imitation, not artificial, intelligence

Simon Willison, co-creator of the popular Django web framework for Python,gave a keynote presentation at PyCon2024 on a topic that isunrelated to that work: large language models (LLMs).The topic grew out of some other work that he is doing on Datasette, which is a Python-based"tool for exploring and publishing data". The talk was a lookbeyond the hype to try to discover what useful things you can actually dotoday using these models. Unsurprisingly, there were somecautionary notes from Willison, as well.