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Re: Show HN: Turning books into chatbots with GPT-3

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Post by williamcotton »

fzliu wrote: post #71
anthropodie wrote: post #8

This is one application of AI that I absolutely like. Imagine in future the AI will be able to ingest any video, blog, books, manuals, license and whole lot of other things and we will just be able to ask questions to it or get a summary from it. I wonder what will happen to actual content then. Currently YouTube is showing info about most watched section of the clips. It saves so much time! Now imagine that happenin…

If you sprinkle in a bit of infrastructure, I think we're already there. The ability to distill a variety of content into vectors and perform approximate nearest neighbor search (shameless plug: https://milvus.io ) across all of them can really help power a lot of these applications. With the retrieved vectors, you could match questions with answers or create a reverse index to the original content to perform summari…

How usable would the document embedding be for a nearest neighbor search if the dimensions were reduced to three?

Re: Show HN: Turning books into chatbots with GPT-3

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Post by rmellow »

> 12 Rules For Life

Q: "What rule number says 'Finders Keepers'?"

A: "The Rule that says "Finder's Keepers" is Rule #10. It states: "Be precise in your speech. Don't use more words than necessary. When you have acquired something, take care of it properly. Don't give away what you have worked hard to obtain. If you find something, it's yours to keep.""

AI will only take over humankind if we're silly enough to mis-apply it. And that is the future we should fear because it is the most likely (and sooner) to happen.

Re: Show HN: Turning books into chatbots with GPT-3

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Post by ComposedPattern »

Hmm... the first question I asked was for "Sapiens" by Yuval Harari: "Is liberalism a religion?" This was one of the more interesting points that the book made very explicitly:

> The modern age has witnessed the rise of a number of new natural-law religions, such as liberalism, Communism, capitalism, nationalism and Nazism. These creeds do not like to be called religions, and refer to themselves as ideologies. But this is just a semantic exercise. If a religion is a system of human norms and values that is founded on belief in a superhuman order, then Soviet Communism was no less a religion than Islam.

But it answered:

> No, liberalism is not a religion. It is a political and economic ideology that believes in individual rights and freedoms, limited government, and the rule of law. It is based on the principles of liberty, equality, and fraternity.

Re: Show HN: Turning books into chatbots with GPT-3

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Post by rmellow »

rmellow wrote: post #93

> 12 Rules For Life Q: "What rule number says 'Finders Keepers'?" A: "The Rule that says "Finder's Keepers" is Rule #10. It states: "Be precise in your speech. Don't use more words than necessary. When you have acquired something, take care of it properly. Don't give away what you have worked hard to obtain. If you find something, it's yours to keep."" AI will only take over humankind if we're silly enough to mis-app…

Bonus points: Ask it about rules greater than 12. Ask it how do certain rules contradict each other.

It persists through non-sequiturs and makes things up. If you're an educator, this is how you suss out students who haven't read a book.

Re: Show HN: Turning books into chatbots with GPT-3

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Post by freediver »

mnkm wrote: post #37
ExxKA wrote: post #10

Hey. Great to see you executed on this. I was discussing this same idea with a publisher this morning. Would love to catch up with you and understand a little more about the experiences you have had building and now getting feedback on the idea. Do you know Steve Jobs had this same vision?

Not familiar with the Jobs reference. Would love a link to that. New to HN, so not sure if this is the right way to connect. I set up a Twitter account for this project if you want to DM. https://twitter.com/_konjer

Apple Knowledge Navigator (1987)

https://youtu.be/umJsITGzXd0

Re: Show HN: Turning books into chatbots with GPT-3

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Post by nutanc »

version_five wrote: post #87
anthropodie wrote: post #8

This is one application of AI that I absolutely like. Imagine in future the AI will be able to ingest any video, blog, books, manuals, license and whole lot of other things and we will just be able to ask questions to it or get a summary from it. I wonder what will happen to actual content then. Currently YouTube is showing info about most watched section of the clips. It saves so much time! Now imagine that happenin…

I have a decent sized book collection, and what I'd like the most is a ctrl-f for books. Does that exist already in e-readers? Personally I think question answering is still very gimmicky, in particular because I can't clearly understand why the answer is what it is. Ctrl-f is completely explainable, I know why it works and why it fails, and is a much more useful tool to engage with books. The main problem seems that…

Agreed. That's why the approach we are taking is to answer the question 'and' show the links/paragraphs which answer the question.

Demo we have created for our website: https://speech-kws.ozonetel.com/ozosearch

Re: Show HN: Turning books into chatbots with GPT-3

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Post by jameswlepage »

This is really interesting, and idea that I have been considering building for a while. I think this is better than anything I could've whipped up in that time.

I'm interested in the community starts regarding the ethics and copyright aspect of this application of AI. If we're training, models off the continent of books, and the user hasn't purchased the book, where does that leave us?

I don't really know what to think

Re: Show HN: Turning books into chatbots with GPT-3

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Post by hansvm »

williamcotton wrote: post #91
fzliu wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you sprinkle in a bit of infrastructure, I think we're already there. The ability to distill a variety of content into vectors and perform approximate nearest neighbor search (shameless plug: https://milvus.io ) across all of them can really help power a lot of these applications. With the retrieved vectors, you could match questions with answers or create a reverse index to the original content to perform summari…

How usable would the document embedding be for a nearest neighbor search if the dimensions were reduced to three?

Nearly useless for most applications unless there's been a major improvement in the SOTA that I missed.

Re: Show HN: Turning books into chatbots with GPT-3

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Post by kugutsumen »

jameswlepage wrote: post #98

This is really interesting, and idea that I have been considering building for a while. I think this is better than anything I could've whipped up in that time. I'm interested in the community starts regarding the ethics and copyright aspect of this application of AI. If we're training, models off the continent of books, and the user hasn't purchased the book, where does that leave us? I don't really know what to thi…

copyright has to die... the only valid pronouns are we/us.
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