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Universal Summarizer

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Re: Universal Summarizer

#131
Just tried my own blog article and it's pretty accurate.

https://labs.kagi.com/ai/sum?url=https://langsoul.com/blog/l...

This blog post explores the idea that reading can help us understand the perspectives of others and shape our own views. It also discusses the limitations of reading, such as not being able to experience the calming effects of the sea or the grandeur of nature. The author then shares a personal experience of a 2km walk that turned out to be a path of suffering, with multiple inclines and hills. He emphasizes that only through experiencing the pain and exhaustion of the journey can one truly understand the path of suffering. This post highlights the importance of experiencing life in order to gain a deeper understanding of it.

Re: Universal Summarizer

#132
Bit meta, but asking it to summarise this comment thread gives an interesting result…

> Jessica Yamada is a therapist working with a patient, Victoria, who is struggling with the possibility of uncontrollable, incurable plagues. Jessica is also trying to help a young woman, Lily, who is torn between fatalism and wanting to help her friends stick together.

Not sure why it picked this particular post as representative.

Re: Universal Summarizer

#133
The Summarizer uses extra knowledge beyond what's given by the URL you submit. I tried giving it a link to a synopsis of "Terminator 2: Judgment Day" from IMDB. I then copied and pasted the synopsis into a pastebin online content-hosting site, and gave the Summarizer the URL of the pastebin. Both results are impressive but quite different:

When fed https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103064/plotsummary/?ref_=tt_st... :

Terminator 2: Judgment Day is a 1991 science fiction action film that follows the story of John Connor and his mother Sarah as they attempt to prevent a nuclear war called Judgment Day. The film follows John and Sarah as they are pursued by a T-1000, a liquid metal android sent back in time to kill Sarah. John and Sarah enlist the help of a reprogrammed Terminator to protect them from the T-1000. In the end, John and Sarah manage to destroy the T-1000 and the chip that would have caused Judgment Day. The film ends with John and Sarah embracing, relieved that they have prevented the nuclear war. An interesting aspect of the film is the Terminator's ability to learn and understand human emotions, which is demonstrated when it refuses to kill John's foster parents and when it grasps Sarah's hand in a gesture of understanding.

Versus https://pastebin.com/Bk183Jky :

The movie opens with shots of traffic and children in playgrounds, followed by a flash-forward to Los Angeles in 2029 AD. The survivors of the nuclear fire called the war Judgment Day are fighting against robotic tanks and androids. John Connor and his mother Sarah Connor are on the run from the T-1000, a liquid metal android sent to kill them. They enlist the help of the Terminator, a cyborg sent from the future to protect them. After a series of intense battles, the Terminator and Sarah manage to destroy the T-1000 in a pool of molten metal. However, the Terminator reminds them that there is still one more chip which must be destroyed; it points at its own skull.

Notice that the first summary mentions "1991 science fiction", but none of the words science, fiction, or 1991 are to be found at that URL.

Re: Universal Summarizer

#134
Like all other models backed by LLM, Kagi summarizer can process text in other languages quite well. I let it summarized for me the SPIEGEL interview with Weizenbaum and Heafner 45 years ago, and it did a splendid job. The summary was presented in English, but the highlights are captured in German.

Of course, it missed some (subjective) important points like during the discussion about the principal transferability of human experience (and knowledge): we human have our inner values and processes, which we could not express (easily) in our languages. Therefore, it's also impossible to transfer such human experience into the computer.

https://www.spiegel.de/politik/es-ist-eine-explosion-des-qua...

Re: Universal Summarizer

#135
I guess it is a good way to crowdsource search index.

The thing about Google search and byproducts, is that I start to think it is deliberately crippled by US gov. Power structures. I can not explain any other way why it sucks so much and there is zero to none innovation, at least that available to the end users.

Re: Universal Summarizer

#137
post #28

I had it summarize a recipe for me. It did a good job, but definitely editorialized. The URL I sent included just the recipe for split pea soup, but the summary added that "Split pea soup is a hearty and comforting dish that is easy to make" (which is true, but wasn't in the original) and said that the soup "is sure to be a hit with the whole family" (again, true, but wasn't in the original). So I feel like "summary"…

> So I feel like "summary" isn't the right word exactly.

Might be a close cousin of hallucination.

Re: Universal Summarizer

#139
Tried it with code:

https://bellard.org/quickjs/pi_bigdecimal.js

This code uses the QuickJS bigdecimal type to calculate the value of pi to a given precision. It does this by using the Chudnovsky algorithm, which is a series of calculations that can be used to approximate pi. The code is written in Javascript and uses BigInt and BigDecimal to perform the calculations. It is interesting to note that the code also takes into account the possibility of bad rounding for the last digits, and adds extra digits to reduce the probability of this happening.

Re: Universal Summarizer

#140

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…

I don’t know why. Most businesses work on projects that are not strictly related to the core product. Imagine how much cheaper your iPhone would be if you weren’t subsidizing apple car, augmented reality research, etc.

I imagine an iPhone wouldn't exist if its research wasn't subsidized with Macs or iPads earlier.
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