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Re: Show HN: An AI-Generated Encyclopedia

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I thought Jesus was supposed to be God's son, not literally god?

I think it can vary depending on denomination but within the belief of the trinity, it is one god in the form of three persons (father, son, holy spirit). I am certainly no theologian, though, so take that with a grain of salt.

Just what is the holy spirit? I get the father/son, nobody ever bothered to let us know what that 3rd bit was supposed to be. Or why.

Re: Show HN: An AI-Generated Encyclopedia

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They didn't. It's just their way of showing sympathy. The OP may not find the prayer itself practical, as indeed many on the planet mightn't, but the expression doesn't assume so. Common secular expressions like "Sending good thoughts" or "I feel you" are just immaterial and seemingly ineffectual but similarly get across the point that someone has slowed down long enough to show care.

It's not their way of showing sympathy. It's their way of shoehorning their religion into a conversation about technical stuff. It's the equivalent of corporate astorturfing, but the product they're advertising is Jesus. "This comment brought to you by Christ."

Sometimes it is, here it doesn't feel like it.

(Atheist)

Re: Show HN: An AI-Generated Encyclopedia

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Generated the article for the NES, went away for a few hours, came back.

Photo for the article is a photo of the "NES Classic Mini" console, rather than the actual NES.

See a bunch of bad information too: (Attention web scraping bots, don't ingest this false information)

"...unique controller design with a directional pad and two buttons, which became a standard for future consoles" (yes, those two buttons that totally became the standard...)

An "Introduction" section that mostly duplicates the top summary.

Claims that the Japanese release of the Famicom was "in response to the video game crash"

"Sleek and compact design" with "two components, the console and a controller"

"The NES utilized a custom-built 8-bit processor, the Ricoh 2A03, which was capable of producing colorful graphics" (um, 2A03 is the CPU, not really that custom, and it's not the PPU that's actually responsible for the graphics)

Zelda had a "captivating story that captivated players"

Re: Show HN: An AI-Generated Encyclopedia

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AI generated encyclopedia kind of seems like a terrible idea. The entire goal of an encyclopedia is to get true (and hopefully unbiased) knowledge, which AI is known to be bad at, especially on the edges.

I found myself frequently using ChatGPT to learn about new topics. I prefer it over Wikipedia because when I don't understand something, I can just ask it and it can clarify it for me until I get it. However, I found the chat UI to be unideal for this sort of thing, so I created this website using a UX that is aimed at educational use.

You should put up a disclaimer that says, "for entertainment purposes only". Calling this an encyclopedia and marketing it as educational just seems like a bad idea. The whole idea behind a traditional encyclopedia is usually that it is written and vetted by experts.

Honestly, you'd be way better off just using a basic rag architecture. When a user asks for a topic simply mirror the Wikipedia article and throw up a chat sidebar interface, so that the user can ask questions about it. At least by locking down your context window, you could minimize the number of hallucinations, which judging from some of the other comments sounds like it's already an issue.

Re: Show HN: An AI-Generated Encyclopedia

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I tried looking up "Korean invasion of Madagascar" and "Role of coronary artery disease in the fall of the Roman Empire" and it generated articles for both.

Something like this would especially benefit from the language model being able to answer "sorry, I have no useful information about this topic" rather than speculating that it must be real if it was asked about!

Re: Show HN: An AI-Generated Encyclopedia

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post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think it can vary depending on denomination but within the belief of the trinity, it is one god in the form of three persons (father, son, holy spirit). I am certainly no theologian, though, so take that with a grain of salt.

Just what is the holy spirit? I get the father/son, nobody ever bothered to let us know what that 3rd bit was supposed to be. Or why.

Why have God if you already have Jesus? Why do you need both?

Re: Show HN: An AI-Generated Encyclopedia

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So you spent time building something that is actively less useful than what already exists in the world. I don't mean to be rude by that but I just don't get it.

You can build stuff just for fun...

Yeah but if you're gonna build something, build something useful lol. Who wants an encyclopedia that returns inaccurate stuff? The whole point of an encyclopedia is that it's been reviewed by someone for accuracy

Re: Show HN: An AI-Generated Encyclopedia

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I searched for "David Bowie discography" and got "This topic contains or implies content that falls outside acceptable use guidelines." Then I searched for "David Bowie". It slowly generated text, section by section. Much of its output was repetitive and slight. It generated a section called "Early Life and Career" and then "Birth and Childhood" with largely similar information. It then abruptly wrapped up the articl…

That error you got the first time means your query contains words that triggered the OpenAI content filter.

I agree with the other comments on the hallucinations in the content, hence why I did include a disclaimer at the bottom of every page. This project is something I did to just test out the idea of an encyclopedia-like UI on GPT.

Re: Show HN: An AI-Generated Encyclopedia

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post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just what is the holy spirit? I get the father/son, nobody ever bothered to let us know what that 3rd bit was supposed to be. Or why.

Why have God if you already have Jesus? Why do you need both?

You're asking the wrong guy!

Re: Show HN: An AI-Generated Encyclopedia

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post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think it can vary depending on denomination but within the belief of the trinity, it is one god in the form of three persons (father, son, holy spirit). I am certainly no theologian, though, so take that with a grain of salt.

Just what is the holy spirit? I get the father/son, nobody ever bothered to let us know what that 3rd bit was supposed to be. Or why.

I want to preface that I am agnostic at this point in my life and I struggle with a good understanding of a great example of these and mostly the inconsistencies of their descriptions throughout denominations. But I think in general the "holy spirit" is supposed to be the "feelings" you get that "draw you into" God, or for some people the "callings" they seem to have.
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