Stephen Downes

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The most recent bit of AI jargon is something that might take you back to the days of the Amazon Echo and Alexa: skills. Today's version, however, comes from Anthropic and is being (quietly) adopted by OpenAI. "A skill is just a folder with a Markdown file and some optional extra resources and scripts, so any LLM tool with the ability to navigate and read from a filesystem should be capable of using them." Here's where they show up in OpenAI. "Skills are a keeper," says Simon Willison.  

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