> Hi, I am AI and Blockchain-Powered SummarizeBot! I assume the expected reaction is "Cool! They use blockchain." My reaction is moreso, "What on earth does this have to do with blockchain?" > We apply decentralized architecture to train and test our AI models. Using blockchain technology helps us not only to get more training data but also to improve the trustworthiness of our algorithms. I still don't understand wh…
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#12> Hi, I am AI and Blockchain-Powered SummarizeBot! I assume the expected reaction is "Cool! They use blockchain." My reaction is moreso, "What on earth does this have to do with blockchain?" > We apply decentralized architecture to train and test our AI models. Using blockchain technology helps us not only to get more training data but also to improve the trustworthiness of our algorithms. I still don't understand wh…
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#13Wassa wassavwasssa wasa BITCOOOONEEEECT
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#14> Hi, I am AI and Blockchain-Powered SummarizeBot! I assume the expected reaction is "Cool! They use blockchain." My reaction is moreso, "What on earth does this have to do with blockchain?" > We apply decentralized architecture to train and test our AI models. Using blockchain technology helps us not only to get more training data but also to improve the trustworthiness of our algorithms. I still don't understand wh…
> I still don't understand what this has to do with blockchain. Funding from VCs?
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#151. Summarizing entire bodies of text down into "bite-sized" chunks isn't inherently a good thing. It seems the main use case (and at least the one suggested in the demo) is to be used for news articles. Now, I'm totally understanding of the fact that not everyone has the time to read every news article, but as it is, only reading part of the article (or more commonly, only reading the headline) is a huge issue with current consumption of content. This attempt to further summarize articles into small, context-less bites seems to be going in the wrong direction.
2. On the demo page, there is a "Fake News Detection" feature. I threw a couple of articles at it and it left me with so many questions I don't even know where to begin. For a few articles, it just gave me a binary "Real:1 , Fake:0" output. For others, it spit out a couple of numbers for stats like "conspiracy", "irony", "bias", "pseudoscience". Why are these the attributes chosen to measure? How are they calculated? Is something like "irony" even meaningful when trying to detect fake news?
Viewing the documentation section of the site, there is a small blurb claiming that it uses "custom AI classifiers", "custom machine learning models trained on fake and biased articles", and "database of trusted and biased websites created by our experts" to calculate these numbers. AKA, there is absolutely zero meaningful explanation as to how these numbers are calculated and why they should be trusted. This entire feature is a complete black box, and for all we know, the "database of trusted websites" could be created by Russian spies trying to sow misinformation.
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I still don't understand what this has to do with blockchain. Funding from VCs?
True story. I met a guy who was looking for a tech co-founder and had an idea that will use blockchain. I challenged him on the reason behind the use of blockchain and he literally said "Investors like to hear buzzwords and at this time, I am looking to raise funding". His idea wasn't bad but he couldn't justify using blockchain to implement it. I pressed him further and asked if he was willing to implement the idea…
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
True story. I met a guy who was looking for a tech co-founder and had an idea that will use blockchain. I challenged him on the reason behind the use of blockchain and he literally said "Investors like to hear buzzwords and at this time, I am looking to raise funding". His idea wasn't bad but he couldn't justify using blockchain to implement it. I pressed him further and asked if he was willing to implement the idea…
Honestly, that's hysterical even for HBO's Silicon Valley. As someone who has never lived in or experienced Silicon Valley, I always assumed the show was a bit of an exaggeration. But people like this are proof that it's not. It's a documentary with a comedic element.
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#18Is it abstractive or extractive? What exactly does this have to do with blockchain? The landing page is more marketing than technical and may not really be a good fit for this site.
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#19A couple thoughts: 1. Summarizing entire bodies of text down into "bite-sized" chunks isn't inherently a good thing. It seems the main use case (and at least the one suggested in the demo) is to be used for news articles. Now, I'm totally understanding of the fact that not everyone has the time to read every news article, but as it is, only reading part of the article (or more commonly, only reading the headline) is…
1) I did try on https://www.reuters.com/article/us-southkorea-prisonstay-idU... and from 20% and 40% summary I have no clue of the actual meaning of the article. It seems that it just gets some sentences out, but they don't really combine in summary as a whole.
2) And seems like it has some fake news element as well "fake: 0.343". Confusing.
To sum up my experience: I confused, real: 0.9; fake: 0.1.
Anyhow it seems that has some great potential and may be useful in some general knowledge fact summarization in the future.