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Imitation Intelligence, my keynote for PyCon US 2024


I gave an invited keynote at PyCon US 2024 in Pittsburgh this year. My goal was to say some interesting things about AI—specifically about Large Language Models—both to help catch …

## A group of scientists came together with this proposal, to find “how to make machines use language, form abstractions and concepts, solve kinds of problems now reserved for humans, and improve themselves”. # This is an example from a few weeks ago where I had a GeoJSON file with a whole bunch of different segments of lines representing the outline of a park in New York State and I wanted to turn them into a single polygon. # The result was this Datasette table with all of the resolutions—so now I can start filtering them for example to show just the ones in South America and give counts per country, ordered by the amount of money that was issued.

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