I'm not sure this is true.

Sometimes. Sometimes they practice by text or phone.

> They’re also good at extracting information in a way that (at least currently) sycophantic LLMs don’t replicate.

If I had to guess, I think I'd guess that mainstream LLM chatbots are better at getting honest and applicable medical histories than most doctors. People are less likely to lie/hide/prevaricate and get more time with the person.

One of the things I respected OpenAI for at the release of ChatGPT was not trying to prevent these topics. My employer at the time had a cutting-edge internal LLM chatbot for a which was post-trained to avoid them, something I think they were forced to be braver about in their public release because of the competitive landscape.

It's definitely striking, I can't deny that. I crossed the last remnants of an almost-extinct glacier last year that my guide guessed would be gone in 1-3 years: at the beginning of his career it was a real glacer with non-trivial extents, crevasses, etc.

Wikimedia also seems to have a presence in the UK https://wikimedia.org.uk/ that presumably would be affected.

In most cases they might have enough pull to get folks blacklisted by payment processors, but wikimedia in particular might win that one.

    with sql_context(columns="x"):
        query, values = sql(t"SELECT {col} FROM y")

1. this is relying on the `col = "x"` in the previous example

2. columns is a set of strings, so it might be sql_context(columns={"foo", "bar", "x"}) to allow those as valid options. It just happens that "x" is a collection supporting the `in` operator so it works much like the set {"x"} would.

2a. (You might hope that something would convert such a string to a singleton set, but I don't think it does, which would have weird results with a multi-letter string.)

The counterfactual isn't Google having average performance. You're crediting the stock performance, revenue growth, and political influence (don't really agree this last one was a place Google shined over this period) to Sundar's leadership; I think it has a lot more to do with the company he was handed.