There's too much content, so I built an AI knowledge assistant

#1

Post by faraaz98 » Sun, Mar 30, 2025, 11:27 PM UTC

There's too much content, so I built an AI knowledge assistant
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Re: There's too much content, so I built an AI knowledge assistant

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Post by _aavaa_ » Mon, Mar 31, 2025, 3:00 PM UTC

An AI assistant to generate abstracts for research papers, and to summarize videos.

While a cool technical project, I think the author falls for the mistaken belief that “if only I approached this in a smarter fashion I could do everything before I die”.

If you have 600 videos queued up, perhaps you need to start pruning them rather than trying to consume more content.

There is no end state here, just a treadmill of ever increasing videos and articles. If you can now get through 600 videos give it a few weeks and it’ll be 6,000 videos, and you’ll be back where you started: information overload.

Re: There's too much content, so I built an AI knowledge assistant

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Post by faraaz98 » Mon, Mar 31, 2025, 8:55 PM UTC

_aavaa_ wrote: post #2

An AI assistant to generate abstracts for research papers, and to summarize videos. While a cool technical project, I think the author falls for the mistaken belief that “if only I approached this in a smarter fashion I could do everything before I die”. If you have 600 videos queued up, perhaps you need to start pruning them rather than trying to consume more content. There is no end state here, just a treadmill of…

Author here, You're right. That IS my goal though, to get rid of stuff I don't want quicker.

> Then I can take one glance at the summary and skim through the video in my first watch. If I find it interesting, I would watch it completely, else I discard it from my list.