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Ask HN: What AI Software Product/Software Do You Need?

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Re: Ask HN: What AI Software Product/Software Do You Need?

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Post by mejutoco »

I wonder how AI used "for good" would look like. To take all the disinformation online and point out the contradictions and things that do not make sense in a clear way.

Of course, it remains to be seen if people would be convinced or look for their already stablished opinions, etc. Still, cynicism aside, I wonder how something that balances that toxicity using AI would look like. Maybe reducing news to plain facts, like news wire services?

You could train on the comments of major newspapers.

Re: Ask HN: What AI Software Product/Software Do You Need?

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Post by tikkun »

Fractal book summaries: I'd like a tool that allows me to put in a PDF, .epub, or .mobi of a book, and have it output a chapter by chapter summary of varying degrees of summarization. So that then I can read the book in a fractal way. I can start with a one paragraph summary of each chapter, and I can click on anything I want to see more detail of, and it'll be instant. (So, it does all the summarization one off before I start reading)

Re: Ask HN: What AI Software Product/Software Do You Need?

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Post by shishy »

billconan wrote: post #2

I recently read somewhere that a paper is a small part of a long on-going conversation. I found this description aptly. To comprehend the latest paper, I frequently find it necessary to grasp the context provided by its citations. All pertinent papers collectively shape a Directed Acyclic Graph. Is there a tool available that would enable me to organize papers in a DAG, allowing me to formulate a structured reading p…

For research papers, scite.ai makes citation contexts super obvious.

e.g. for this DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2005.08.012

here is our report page: https://scite.ai/reports/association-between-amygdala-hypera...

Metadata at the top, the list of citations below with relevant contexts from those citations about your paper of interest.

There's a visualization feature as well.

Re: Ask HN: What AI Software Product/Software Do You Need?

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Post by dr_kiszonka »

Tommstein wrote: post #8
Osiris wrote: post #5

iOS/Android keyboard that is context aware and can correct your typos based on context.

Doesn't Gboard on Android already do that? On my phone, it has a setting that says "Next-word suggestions: Use previous words in making suggestions", and I can sometimes tell that it's obviously doing that.

I think some of Gboard's features depend on the phone and the language, e.g., "fix it."

Re: Ask HN: What AI Software Product/Software Do You Need?

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Post by Tommstein »

dr_kiszonka wrote: post #14
Tommstein wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Doesn't Gboard on Android already do that? On my phone, it has a setting that says "Next-word suggestions: Use previous words in making suggestions", and I can sometimes tell that it's obviously doing that.

I think some of Gboard's features depend on the phone and the language, e.g., "fix it."

Maybe, but that setting has been there for me for as long as I can remember.

Re: Ask HN: What AI Software Product/Software Do You Need?

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Post by Mockapapella »

An AI that is local and can tap into (either though fine tuning or RAG) the complete context of what I see, hear, think, ingest, and excrete so that I can get a better understanding of who I am and how I can improve. I want to see trends about myself that could only be discovered by an AI that knows more about me than I know myself.

Re: Ask HN: What AI Software Product/Software Do You Need?

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Post by _boffin_ »

Mockapapella wrote: post #16

An AI that is local and can tap into (either though fine tuning or RAG) the complete context of what I see, hear, think, ingest, and excrete so that I can get a better understanding of who I am and how I can improve. I want to see trends about myself that could only be discovered by an AI that knows more about me than I know myself.

Actually working on something like that right now. Hopefully have a rough prototype in a month or so.

Re: Ask HN: What AI Software Product/Software Do You Need?

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Post by smcleod »

iiJDSii wrote: post #6
ulrischa wrote: post #4

Something like the GPTs from openai that I can run locally without being hosted in the cloud

Out of curiosity what are the use cases/benefits for running models locally? I also have this fascination because I'd like to have my LLM exist like a 'pocket calculator' that's safe from any technical fiasco in the future... But aside from this I'm wondering why others are into this as well.

Latency, customisation, privacy, cost, availability.

Re: Ask HN: What AI Software Product/Software Do You Need?

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Post by cyanydeez »

I think RAG are the sweet spot of current tech. I've got a client with a 50 year repository of technical reports and while my memory is great, the organization logic is abysmal.

Something that can locate files, excerpts, timelines and basic QA from just a point and shoot capacity would kill so many small-medium orgs. it's basically plugnplay search to bright engineers, scientists, technical staff, etc up to speed. add flexibility without having to "train" someone up. basically, bypass ever having to hire interns.

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