Into Thin AirPods
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Into Thin AirPods
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Re: Into Thin AirPods
#2tl;dr, she loses her airpods which are subsequently stolen and doesn't get them back. Lot of writing about a chase that ultimately results in nothing.
Re: Into Thin AirPods
#3tl;dr, she loses her airpods which are subsequently stolen and doesn't get them back. Lot of writing about a chase that ultimately results in nothing.
Why use few words when you can use a bazillion words.
BTW, the text is too long for GPT4 to summarise, I wonder if that's a tactic sites use against AI tools? :D Just make the text so long and full of purple prose that the AI models choke.
Re: Into Thin AirPods
#4tl;dr, she loses her airpods which are subsequently stolen and doesn't get them back. Lot of writing about a chase that ultimately results in nothing.
And the story is very well written and fun to read.
Re: Into Thin AirPods
#5tl;dr, she loses her airpods which are subsequently stolen and doesn't get them back. Lot of writing about a chase that ultimately results in nothing.
Have you ever read a novel? You'd hate them.
Re: Into Thin AirPods
#6tl;dr, she loses her airpods which are subsequently stolen and doesn't get them back. Lot of writing about a chase that ultimately results in nothing.
Why use few words when you can use a bazillion words. BTW, the text is too long for GPT4 to summarise, I wonder if that's a tactic sites use against AI tools? :D Just make the text so long and full of purple prose that the AI models choke.
The purpose of this story is for the author to recount their experience in an entertaining way that's pleasant to read. Why would you want to use an LLM to summarize it? That'd be like finding an interesting-looking novel to read at the bookstore, then buying the Cliff's Notes instead.
I've thus far kept myself mostly isolated from and ambivalent about the GPT hype, but this comment, even if it's somewhat tongue-in-cheek, really says a lot about where the technology is going to take us as a species. I'm not thrilled about it.
Re: Into Thin AirPods
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#8tl;dr, she loses her airpods which are subsequently stolen and doesn't get them back. Lot of writing about a chase that ultimately results in nothing.
Why use few words when you can use a bazillion words. BTW, the text is too long for GPT4 to summarise, I wonder if that's a tactic sites use against AI tools? :D Just make the text so long and full of purple prose that the AI models choke.
> Why use few words when you can use a bazillion words. BTW, the text is too long for GPT4 to summarise, I wonder if that's a tactic sites use against AI tools? :D Just make the text so long and full of purple prose that the AI models choke.
Regardless of the usefulness of a summary for this article, the obvious solution is to split the text into smaller chunks and generate summaries for each chunk, then combine them into an overall summary.
As an example, ChatGPT was able to summarize 32 out of the 48 paragraphs in this article, which contained about 3,714 tokens and 15,289 characters:
> The author resisted buying AirPods due to fear of losing them, but eventually gave in and bought them. Predictably, they lost them in a ski lodge. They later discovered that they were being pinged by the "Find My" app and were located in a nearby town. Despite warnings against it, the author contemplated taking vigilante action to recover their AirPods but ultimately decided against it.
Then, I requested a summary of the remaining 16 paragraphs, which contained 1,681 tokens and 6,983 characters:
> The author recounts their attempts to track down their stolen AirPods using Apple's Find My app. They follow the location of the thief to a museum and a Wal-Mart, but are unable to identify the culprit or retrieve their AirPods. The app leads them on a wild goose chase through a crowded outlet mall before the AirPods eventually end up in Mexico City. The author reflects on the futility of their efforts and accepts that they will likely never recover their lost property.
Re: Into Thin AirPods
#9tl;dr, she loses her airpods which are subsequently stolen and doesn't get them back. Lot of writing about a chase that ultimately results in nothing.
I thought it was gonna relate Airpods to Christopher McCandless. But that's Into The Wild. So thanks for clearing that up for me. :)