One item TFA mentions is the increase in the quality of fraudulent messages that LLMs can create. In many cases, I believe the low quality of spam messages is an effective first pass at filtering for individuals that are more susceptible to falling for the scam – it could be that LLMs won't be useful for this sort of scam. On the other hand, an increase in quality could allow the targeting of individuals that would normally easily spot fraud, so perhaps this is a cause for concern?
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This is great - a really clear summary! I can see myself checking back on this regularly. It's certainly a more positive stat to track than numbers infected / deaths.
I'd love to see a chart showing the number of people vaccinated per day/week, as well as the cumulative total - it would help interpret if the prediction made in the "UK vaccinated over time" graph is overly optimistic (i.e because last week was a dip in the numbers vaccinated) or pessimistic (more people are being vaccinated every week, so the curve will likely steepen)
I would also really enjoy reading a post going through how you made it - what tech you chose and how you're pulling the data from the NHS website. Although conceptually quite simple, I imagine there's some nuance to the implementation and if the tech isn't particularly exciting it's still good to read about pragmatic tech choices.
And we should consider ourselves lucky as engineers that we work in an industry where we are so in demand that are able to do that. Workers in other industries (the article talks about a firm that re-sells beauty products) might not be so lucky.