Note on 18th September 2026
Simon Willison argues that ignoring LLMs today is like a geneticist dismissing the newly opened Jurassic Park.
In a short blog note, Simon Willison observes that computer scientists refusing to engage with LLMs are missing a historically significant moment. The piece is an opinion-style analogy comparing the current AI field to the recently opened Jurassic Park in the film's premise.
From the original article
Being a computer scientist who refuses to find anything about LLMs interesting right now is a bit like being a geneticist who refuses to find anything interesting about the recently opened Jurassic Park. Tags: llms , ai , generative-ai
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