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#41
Problem is, why should I trust it, that it doesn't miss or interpose "not" in crucial place?

ChatGPT was caught in blatant lie (if we can say such about language model), presented with 100% confidence (if we can say such about language model) multiple times.

Re: Show HN: Summate.it – Quickly summarize web articles with OpenAI

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Nice Easter egg: https://summate.it/https://summate.it

Ah you found it! Didn't think anyone would try that. :D

Back in the day, the demo-scene was rife with Easter eggs, often with a personal touch.

It always puts a smile on my face when I come across clever ones like this, even though that's becoming rarer these days. I guess that's due to concerns about 'hidden code' in commercial codebases, which third-party license holders might be skeptical about.

Re: Show HN: Summate.it – Quickly summarize web articles with OpenAI

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we have done just that, check it out https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33748363

I did too! See a link elsewhere in this thread.

That is cool, but it doesn't show me the key takeaways like the one in this post (Summate) does. I still have to RTFA after seeing the blurb on your service. It is generally not too far away, but in most cases too short to be useful.

Take the following as an example (a post from yesterday):

Loss of epigenetic information as a cause of mammalian aging

https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(22)01570-7

Autosummarized HN:

    The article discusses how a loss of epigenetic information causes yeast cells to lose their identity and age, and how this process can be reversed by OSK-mediated rejuvenation.
Summate:

    - Aging is caused by the loss of epigenetic information, leading to a variety of age-related diseases and processes.
    - Epigenetic regulation of aging is affected by environmental inputs, including DNA damage and changes in the TGFbeta signaling pathway.
    - Studies in mammals, such as mice, have revealed a wide range of epigenetic changes associated with aging, including increased transcriptional stress, changes in chromatin structure, and increased Wnt signaling.

Re: Show HN: Summate.it – Quickly summarize web articles with OpenAI

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Not too hard, just "map reduce" it: Have GPT-3 summarize each section of the article, and then have it summarize the summaries.

I've tried it, it doesn't really work that well. There are other much more convoluted approaches that have promise (embedding searches is one)

Could you expand on this? Is the idea to embed paragraphs (or some other arbitrary subsection) of text, and then semantic search for the most relevant paragraphs, and then only summarize them?

Re: Show HN: Summate.it – Quickly summarize web articles with OpenAI

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I've tried it, it doesn't really work that well. There are other much more convoluted approaches that have promise (embedding searches is one)

Could you expand on this? Is the idea to embed paragraphs (or some other arbitrary subsection) of text, and then semantic search for the most relevant paragraphs, and then only summarize them?

Yes that's exactly right, but it presumes you know what to look for and what you want in your summary. Our use case is to pick out action items or next steps from meeting notes so this can work. But not for all use cases - i.e. summarize this paper.

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#50

The hardest part is dealing with GPT token limits. You can't summarize long form text, where it's most needed.

I didn't try, but it seems GPT-Index and LangChain use techniques to get around prompting length limits?

I tried, they don’t. Seems when they were ranking #1 on HN yesterday, someone made a summary (top comment) of what they are for that isn’t quite correct.
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