OK, found the place to get connected. Turns out it is all automatic. Magic!!

I watched Stephen's introduction to the Notebook Assistant and I will have a play with it. The way it is marketed suggests I don't have to buy tokens from OpenAI for the lowest level of the product. It is USD 240 and that covers what the LLM is doing in the background. I assume you have done a behind the scenes deal based on assumed levels of non-industrial strength usage and if you want to really get serious you buy Wolfram's service credits. Have I got it right?

Thanks Bradley. I have been a user of Mathematica since probably 2.0 and I was discussing the potential use of the NA with my oncologist daughter who will be doing some bioinformatics at Cambridge and Stockholm in 2025 as part of her PhD and the NA is just the sort of tool that could help her. By the way, I loved Stephen's warts and all presentation. I'll get playing with Notebook Assistant. Cheers Peter

Wow. My first thought was that the Wolfram Summer School will be dramatically different in 2025. With the Assistant, students can rapidly iterate over a sets of [wholly unexpected] ideas. The overused phrase quantum leap comes to mind...

MIT (and other schools) has held an Integration Bee during IAP for the past 40 years. Maybe MIT's new Schwarzman College of Computing could hold an annual IAP Computation Bee where competitors create a set of computations/visualizations in a set of 3-minute challenges. Creative genius arises from highly-constrained competitions, and participants could could definitely "stand on the shoulders" of their fellow competitors.

The Wolfram Demonstrations Project was launched with Mathematica 6 in 2007 (I found an announcement in the MathWorld Headline News). The Demonstrations Project continues to be an excellent tool for both accessing computational principles and ways to approach computational ideas. At the same time, the Demonstrations Project doesn't sparkle. It looks inwards, but it doesn't pull people from other communities with its vast dazzling capabilities. It also doesn't reflect the vast increase in computational capability available today: multi-core architectures with embedded GPUs and NPUs.

The Wolfram Demonstrations Project could be augmented with the

Wolfram Compelling Computations Project (WCCP).

The WCCP would be a curated list of computations. Each would be introduced by a 4K video; they would be dazzling computations. The computational parts would be available by Computable Document Format files downloadable (and playable) in the Wolfram Player App. The curated notebooks playing in this environment would be an open invitation for students, researchers, and businessmen to leap into the world of AI-generated computation. To borrow from the Cupertino fruit company's marketing, it would be demonstrations of Wolfram Intelligence.

We lack the tools to solve today's problems; we certainly lack the tools to thrive in our complex environment. If there is a "right" way to think about such problems, we don't seem to be thinking that way now.The team at Wolfram Research has made a vast leap to help bridge that gap today. Thank you.

One question I didn't see Stephen address: what impact will the Notebook Assistant have on Wolfram Research's own software development?

The LLM Kit functionality is already available in the cloud. With the subscription you can use LLMFunction and Chat Notebooks in the cloud without configuring any third-party providers.

For Notebook Assistant functionality in the cloud, we make the same advanced computational AI available through Chat Notebooks as long as you're using Wolfram as the LLM Provider. You can ask it the same sort of questions, though it will be using only the current notebook as context. This is available now and we'll also be giving these interfaces more attention in the near future.

Great to hear from you, @John ! If you stumble on some neat examples - please share :-)

There was a bug which I reported to the developers and I believe they have pushed out an update that should fix this. If you continue to have this issue, you should contact technical support.

You are welcome. It was something close to my heart because internally I was the first person to run across this :-). And the developers were very responsive in getting it fixed as quickly as possible.

Impossible not to enjoy the dinosaur story from Stephen :-) A quote from https://wolfr.am/NotebookAssistant

And that reminds me of the very first time I ever saw a computer in real life. It was 1969 and I was 9 years old (and the computer was an IBM mainframe). The person who was showing me the computer asked me: “So what do you want to compute?” I really had no idea at that time “what one might compute”. Rather lamely I said “the weight of a dinosaur”. So, 55 years later, let’s try that again:

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