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Are there ways to make the output quote any relevant sentences from book? I just want to verify whether there is hallucination.
And perhaps which of them reference the others the most - and which points.
Would that be possible?
(Nice work!)
What's the legality of this? Redistributing content for paid books for sale? Edit: can this data be sold?
Precedent would be Blinkist, which AFAIK just uses an army of editors. Though, they probably _have_ contracts with the publishers
You know, Phaedrus, that is the strange thing about writing, which makes it truly correspond to painting. The painter’s products stand before us as though they were alive. But if you question them, they maintain a most majestic silence. It is the same with written words. They seem to talk to you as though they were intelligent, but if you ask them anything about what they say from a desire to be instructed they go on telling just the same thing forever.
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?
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.
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 wonder why the books are all non-fiction. I could imagine it would be entertaining to chat with large works of fiction.
Books that operate in a narrative/temporal style are hard to manage, because statements of fact are mutative. Consider the story: "Justin is hungry. Justin eats dinner. Justin is not hungry." You ask the chatbot "Is Justin hungry?". There is a temporal aspect to this question that is hard for simple systems that are just embedding facts into a vector DB (or similar techniques) to reconcile.
Me:
Consider the story: "Justin is hungry. Justin eats dinner. Justin is not hungry."
Is Justin hungry?
ChatGPT:
No, Justin is not hungry after eating dinner.