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Always clever Google

Tuckahoe! I wanted information on how RAG and Live Intenet Search work with LLMs.  I chose Gemini 2.5 Pro Reasoning, Math & Code for the task.  The final example included as a follow up to expand on real time search included my physical location, which is freely...

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Comparing LLM responses

LLM Responses compared I thought a nice exercise would be to take a relatively simple prompt and assess how the Closed and Open models currently available compare.  This is the prompt that I used: <PROMPT> I’m taking my daughter to an oral surgeon today to...

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Perplexed-ity?

Perplexed-ity? I came across this blog post from Cloudfare: Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade website no-crawl directives I've read and heard a lot of positive things about Perplexity's Comet browser.  I want to like them and I want to cheer...

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AI Action plan, and stuff

AI Action plan Here ya go folks - this is the current administration's AI Action Plan:  https://www.ai.gov/action-plan Here are some words from the current administration about preventing "woke AI" in the federal government...

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Subscribed to One Useful Thing

One Useful Thing is the name of Ethan Mollick's substack newsletter.  Ethan is the Co-Director of the Wharton Generative AI Labs. Wharton Generative AI Labs has lots of good information including a prompt library: https://gail.wharton.upenn.edu/prompt-library/ Check...

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“Accumulation of Cognitive Debt”

There's an article published at MIT that studied "Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872 This blog post was pitched as a rebuttal of sorts to the MIT study - definitely...

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