Some 2024 LLM takeaways: multimodal vision became common, LLM prices crashed, overall environmental impact worsened despite efficiency gains, slop arrived, more (Simon Willison/Simon Willison’s Weblog)

Simon Willison / Simon Willison’s Weblog:
Some 2024 LLM takeaways: multimodal vision became common, LLM prices crashed, overall environmental impact worsened despite efficiency gains, slop arrived, more  —  A lot has happened in the world of Large Language Models over the course of 2024.  Here’s a review of things we figured …