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Re: Show HN: Extract main ideas in your texts with SummarizeBot

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Is 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.

From their "Technologies We Use" page ( https://www.summarizebot.com/summarization_business.html#tec... ) I gather that they use a Blockchain for storing their training data and language models. In theory that makes the language models auditable and tamper-proof. I'm not so sure about the supposed benefit of that, though. Yes, it means that the model itself cannot be tampered with (in order to introduce bias to the s…

Right but you could also commit your changes to your model into a Git repo and use the "blockchain" that Git provides.

When people say blockchain the meaning that there is a distributed consensus comes into the picture. In this case, there is no reason for a distributed consensus on ordering or anything.

But if you are suggesting there are many text parsers that train the model, and there is a central modal that's held by the network state, sure. But I don't know what's the benefit to that as I don't think simply training on more text will allow this bot to produce better summaries.

Re: Show HN: Extract main ideas in your texts with SummarizeBot

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post #9

> 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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Re: Show HN: Extract main ideas in your texts with SummarizeBot

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Idk about the blockchain stuff, but it is semi-featureful since it can extract text from images (I'm assuming its just using Tesseract OCR. At least it could get the text out of this http://www.antigrain.com/research/font_rasterization/msword_...), and I assume audio (but I am having difficulty testing it out). Tbh the formats it accepts as well as the fact that it is available over messenger are huge "selling" points for me and should be way more emphasized on the product page than blockchain and AI.

Re: Show HN: Extract main ideas in your texts with SummarizeBot

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post #9

> 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?

Yes. A friend works in a company where management started asking devs if they could use blockchain somewhere in the existing product (that has absolutely zero need for it), because they believed that being able to say they use "blockchain" will make it easier to get funding.

Re: Show HN: Extract main ideas in your texts with SummarizeBot

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A 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…

Here's a summarization I'd like (and would pay for[0]): chats. I mean IRC logs, Slack & Telegram groupchat logs, etc. Between work and local Hackerspace, people produce so much text on IM that I can't really keep up with it. I'd love a solution that I could feed such chat logs, and get back e.g. list of topics covered.

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[0] - as long as it wasn't a cloud SaaS where I have to share my data with vendor's machines.

Re: Show HN: Extract main ideas in your texts with SummarizeBot

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post #16

Earlier 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.

I know people like that. They grew up from the students who did everything exactly like the teacher said, even if there was obvious (honest) mistake.
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