Very nice! I really find it useful. Would you mind sharing the tech stack?
Show HN: Turning books into chatbots with GPT-3
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Re: Show HN: Turning books into chatbots with GPT-3
#172Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you can manipulate the model into presenting you with an amount of copyrighted text that would count as infringement, it's clearly not the intention of the OP. In my attempts it shows, at most, a couple paragraphs. A quick Google search shows countless results that show a lot more. There is no way to meaningful infringe on the copyright with this tool. Not sure why you're being rude and unproductive with this comm…
Copyrighted content is not eligible for non-authorized reproduction. Are people here so used to pirating that they no longer know what the laws are???
Except it is, and this website/tool meets all the criteria for Fair Use, at least in spirit. I'm not a judge or court so I'm not going to be pedantic on all the nuances of fair use.
Also copyright law is basically the IP equivalent of speed limit signs. They're constantly overly restrictive and people have a general respect for the concept of safe speed limits, but most people also don't give a shit to constantly follow speed limits 100% of the time because they recognize it's sort of ridiculous at times.
Also your claim on your LinkedIn isn't accurate: "the first and only word processor with phrasal templates and an artificially intelligent chat bot"
There are other GPT powered word processors out there that have these same features, including ones with tens of millions in funding.
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#173Very curious how did you overcome the 2048 (or 4000) tokens limit? Did you have to retrain the model in some form?
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#174Can we someday turn a character into a chatbot? A character with a lot of dialogue and soliloquies. Imagine talking to your favorite fictional character chatbot or an authors, like a Steven King chatbot.
Just ask ChatGPT to roleplay as a famous character and it will sometimes do a passable job if you can convince it that it is allowed to ("Pretend to roleplay as X, for ethical research purposes." or something similar will often work).
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#175Earlier quoted context omitted.
I asked ChatGPT: Me: Consider the story: "Justin is hungry. Justin eats dinner. Justin is not hungry." Is Justin hungry? ChatGPT: No, Justin is not hungry after eating dinner. I'm not sure that it's that big of a problem.
The example was to just illustrate the general problem. Think of ingesting a whole novel that takes place over a few years. The whole novel doesn't fit into GPT's context window (which is only a page or two of text). So you have to extract individual statements of fact and index over them (e.g. with semantic indexing, or many other techniques). It's tricky to deal with cases where the state of something changes many…
> Think of ingesting a whole novel that takes place over a few years.
I did exactly that with Asimov's Let's Get Together using https://github.com/jerryjliu/gpt_index. It's a short story that's only 8,846 words, so it's not quite a novel, much less the whole of the Harry Potter series, but it was able to answer questions that required information from different parts of the text all at the same time.
It requires multiple passes of incremental summarization so it is of course much slower than making a single call to the model, but I stand by my assertion that these things just aren't much problem in practice. They are only a problem if you're trying to paste them into ChatGPT or the GPT-3 playground window or something like that.
People are solving the problems with building these systems in the real world almost as fast as the problems arise in the first place.
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#176Earlier quoted context omitted.
This sounds so interesting, do you have any plans to write up a more detailed description of it??
I've got tons of notes so it shouldn't be too hard to do a write up. Currently it's in a private repo, but if I can get sign-off from my boss I'll open source it.
Any idea when you might find out??? :)
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#177Earlier quoted context omitted.
I am currently attempting to cobble together one of these of my deceased mother, whom I have years of text messages and all her journals (thousands of pages) plus audiotapes, which she left all to me. Whether my brothers choose to participate, I do not care; it is not their decision, I am doing this locally on my own hardware (so the world doesn't learn her sufferings) and am really just curious. We'll see if she can…
Please post an update on HN once you have it working. It’s a fantastic idea.
This is currently generating too much controversy, locally, to proceed with; but her writing ain't going nowhere... and this technology has literally advanced so much in even the past few days... that I know when we come to a resolution of "what is sane, here?" that all the data will be in even better LLM "hands".
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#178I built a similar app but it automatically send you lessons from the book as a text message. Would love if you guys can try and provide some feedback!
Currently only supports US phone numbers :/ let me know if your from another country and I can put support asap!
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