Totally missed what this was supposed to do and tried to get a summary of a video discussing some music with captions. Got back garbage. Thought it might process the text from the frames. Shrug. Good idea for the use case you intended tho!
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#42Totally missed what this was supposed to do and tried to get a summary of a video discussing some music with captions. Got back garbage. Thought it might process the text from the frames. Shrug. Good idea for the use case you intended tho!
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#43Giving it either a long (2.5hr) video, or a non-youtube URL (e.g. an invidious link) appears to leave it spinning forever - no error message.
If you don't mind, could you share an example of such long video? I'd love to debug it. As for non-Youtube URL: I indeed do not handle that error right now :D. Thanks so much for bringing it up!
This is the 2.5hr video i tried: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGIGA8taN-M
This 1hr video works (but I note you don't seem to be caching the output?) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0s9fpFPAC94
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#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think your suspicion might be correct: long videos exceeds GPT token limitation (16,385 tokens in my case of GPT-3.5-turbo-16k). Thanks for your suggestion about how to address it.
'Clean up your watch later list" is a neat use case that might be worth supporting directly in some way.
Ah ha! Great point!
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#46Just used this to clear out my watch later list without having to watch anything. Nice! Only note I have at this time is that it seemed to time out or hang or something on a long video (>2h) -- I'm guessing that there might be limitations to how much transcript you can chuck into GPT, it might be worth throwing an error of some sort in that scenario rather than the forever load E: Seen you've asked for an example to…
I think your suspicion might be correct: long videos exceeds GPT token limitation (16,385 tokens in my case of GPT-3.5-turbo-16k). Thanks for your suggestion about how to address it.
No worries! Keep up the great work :)
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#47Awesome work! I used it to summarize an hour long podcast I had been meaning to watch and it worked fabulously. What's amazing is that the transcript is auto-generated and of a conversation between two individuals without any indication of who's actually speaking. Yet GPT-3.5 is able to make sense of it.
Out of curiosity I downloaded the transcript myself with `youtube_transcript_api --format text` and counted the tokens via ttok [0], it was a tad over 16k. So what does your site do in that case? Is the transcript truncated?
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#48It should always append the message "This could have been a blog post" to everything it summarizes.
A well made video can be far better than a blog post.
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#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
Oh boy, wait until the "Prompt Engineers" get a hold of this one.
Sorry, could you please explain what you mean? I am not really quite getting it. What might happen if a Prompt Engineer get a hold of it?
GPT-4's answer: StevenNunez is humorously suggesting that "Prompt Engineers," who are people skilled in crafting effective prompts for AI models, might find bing_dai's simple prompt too basic. They may propose complex and intricately designed prompts to enhance the output quality or add more context to it.
I think GPT-4 didn't quite get it but StevenNunez is making fun of the overly complex prompts people sometimes use (which, to be fair, was more important before instruct and chat tuning)
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#50Two videos that give a 500 internal server error in the Network tab and an infinite spinner:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuiTN4tOBr4 (edit: this has no captions so maybe it's expected, but a proper error would be better)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iShzzAK9zxk (edit: this may be because I marked the subtitles as UK English)