Simon Willison’s Weblog

There is superstition about creativity, and for that matter, about thinking in every sense, and it's part of the history of the field of artificial intelligence that every time somebody figured out how to make a computer do something - play good checkers, solve simple but relatively informal problems - there was a chorus of critics to say, but that's not thinking.

— Pamela McCorduck, in 1979

# 7:49 am / ai, ai-history

Believe it or not, the name Strawberry does not come from the “How many r’s are in strawberry” meme. We just chose a random word. As far as we know it was a complete coincidence.

— Noam Brown, OpenAI

# 11:35 am / ai, openai, generative-ai, llms, o1