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Universal Summarizer

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Re: Universal Summarizer

#61

I pay for Kagi search. This doesn't interest me in the least. They have been breaking down the costs of running their business and justifying their prices, which I'm cool with. If it turns out I'm paying to subsidize this kind of thing, it's not going to work for me anymore. (I don't mean to say it's bad or anything, just I don't care about it. It's an interesting downside of a paid business model. Google can do what…

Seems weird as a customer of a search engine to not care about an innovation that's so tightly related to search. The ability to accurately synthesize information is something that will almost definitely be used to improve results and UI of the main search product.

Re: Universal Summarizer

#62
Based on a few samples and experiments on it:

this tool should avoid trying to mimic structured speech - as real understanding does not appear from the outputs and "coherent" speech is consequently a dubious transvestity.

It should instead, if based on "recognizing salient points in text", do that as well and possible and just highlight textual extracts from the original - leaving intelligent contextualization of the highlighted chunks to the intelligent skimmer.

Re: Universal Summarizer

#63
Seems pretty solid for technical documentation! Great job folks at kagi!

I tried to break it with the 'Tao of Programming'[0].

It was not particularly outstanding but arguably many real humans would also fail to process the allegories/humor and distill that text.

[0] https://www.mit.edu/~xela/tao.html

Re: Universal Summarizer

#64

This is much better than I expected, it's given a good answer for everything I've tried so far. https://labs.kagi.com/ai/sum?url=https://timecube.2enp.com > Dr. Gene Ray is a scientist and philosopher who has discovered the Time Cube, a mathematical proof that there are four simultaneous 24 hour days in a single rotation of the Earth. He believes that the academic and religious teaching of singularity is boring and e…

About the author Gene Ray:

> Dr. Otis Eugene "Gene" Ray was an electrician and inventor who created the website for Time Cube in 1997. He proclaimed himself a Doctor of Cubism and Wisest Human in 2002 and was known for his anti-Semitic, homophobic, and racist views. He ran four separate websites, all revolving around his apparent insanity, and promised $10,000 to anyone who could refute the Time Cube theory. He died in 2015 at the age of 87, but his domain registration for timecube.com was renewed in 2015 under his name. His most coherent sentence was "God is the supreme excuse for human adults to absolve themselves of any obligation to preserve natural resources for their own children during their lifetime." His most famous quote is "1 x 1 = +1 is stupid and evil."

https://labs.kagi.com/ai/sum?url=https://rationalwiki.org/wi...

Re: Universal Summarizer

#66
I just tested it on the full text of a legal case in which I was involved (as a lawyer). It prepared a superb summary. But then I tested it on a second, more complex, case, and it did an average job.

Re: Universal Summarizer

#67
Awesome - I went to Project Gutenberg, picked a title that I was curious about but for which the Bibliographic Record does not have a description. Gave the Kagi Summarizer the URL to the HTML version of the book and got a good description. Finally a way to make my book browsing easier!!!

I wonder if the summarizer's summary can be added to the Project Gutenberg Bibliographic Record?

Re: Universal Summarizer

#68
So far pretty good. I am a Kagi Search subscriber, and they keep surprising me to the upside.

Jerome Powell’s press conference https://www.federalreserve.gov/mediacenter/files/FOMCprescon...

At a press conference on February 1, 2023, Chair Powell of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) discussed the FOMC's decision to raise the policy interest rate by 25 basis points. Powell noted that recent indicators point to modest growth of spending and production this quarter, and that job gains have been robust, with employment rising by an average of 247,000 jobs per month over the last three months. He also noted that total PCE prices rose 5.0 percent over the 12 months ending in December, and that core PCE prices rose 4.0 percent. Powell emphasized that the FOMC is strongly committed to returning inflation to its 2 percent objective, and that the Committee decided to raise interest rates by 25 basis points today in order to assess the economy's progress toward its goals. He also noted that the FOMC is carefully watching the economy and inflation, and that it is important that overall financial conditions continue to reflect the policy restraint that is being put in place in order to bring inflation down to 2 percent. Powell concluded that his base case is that the economy can return to 2 percent inflation without a significant downturn or increase in unemployment.

Re: Universal Summarizer

#69
I tried this with a random Magic the Gathering card: https://labs.kagi.com/ai/sum?url=https://scryfall.com/card/m...

> Jubilant Mascot is a 1/1 creature with an ability that allows you to pay {3}{W} at the beginning of combat on your turn to support two other target creatures. This means that you can put a +1/+1 counter on each of up to two other target creatures. Support can target a creature another player controls, and multiple abilities can target the same creature. If some, but not all, targets for a spell become illegal, the remaining targets are affected as appropriate. It is interesting to note that Jubilant Mascot is legal in Legacy, but not in Modern or Historic.

Pretty neat how it picked out an interesting fact about the cards legality. And it seems to handle parsing what a keyword does.

Very cool stuff!

Re: Universal Summarizer

#70
post #50

I just tried it with a blogpost of my own that's written in a somewhat localized Spanish and it summarized it pretty well in English, which is quite surprising. Good job team kagi!

Tried it with Arthur C. Clarke's "La Estrella" ("The Star", Spanish version), and it did quite well too, although it somewhat downplays the faith crisis at the end.

> Arthur C. Clarke's "La Estrella" tells the story of a group of scientists who are exploring a distant star system and discover a planet that was once home to an advanced civilization. The planet is now a desolate wasteland, but the scientists find evidence of the civilization's existence in the form of a giant monument and thousands of visual records. Through their research, they are able to determine that the civilization was destroyed by a supernova that occurred in the same year as the birth of Jesus Christ. This discovery leads the scientists to question the existence of God and the purpose of the universe. The story highlights the fragility of life and the power of the universe, and serves as a reminder of the importance of cherishing the time we have on Earth.

The key moments are in Spanish for some reason, and half of them are hilarious (in a cute naive AI way):

- La fe de Arthur C. Clarke se vio puesta a prueba cuando descubrió una estrella que había explotado hace miles de años.

- Los astrónomos chinos detectaron una supernova en 1054 sin saber de qué se trataba.

- La nebulosa del Fénix es una cabeza de alfiler, una tenue cáscara de gas que rodea a una estrella única.

- Los habitantes de la estrella habían construido un monumento de una milla de altura para llamar la atención de otras razas.

- La explosión de la estrella había destruido todos los planetas que orbitaban alrededor de ella, excepto uno.

- Los habitantes de la estrella habían dejado miles de registros visuales y máquinas para proyectar estos, junto con instrucciones gráficas.

- La civilización de la estrella había sido destruida en pleno florecimiento, sin dejar supervivientes.

- Arthur C. Clarke se preguntó si la destrucción de la estrella se podía conciliar con la misericordia de Dios.

- Arthur C. Clarke llegó a la conclusión de que el Universo no ti[truncated]

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