Konjer
Learning and science
textbook chatbot
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3 positive, 15 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 11 critical, out of 30 comments about the project. Thread score -0.15.
Execution: 1 for, 8 againstPerformance: 0 for, 3 againstIdea: 2 for, 0 against
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Fun experiment; useful idea for reading fiction and long books
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I also see a use-case for reading long fiction books. Recently, I've been reading Stormlight Archives (Book 3) on and off and there are times when I want to remember why…
ljvmiranda on HNI remember seeing a chatbot for fiction from the same website. Looks like it's the same tech but applied to a different book. As the comments have mentioned, it's a fun…
nutanc on HNOk this is epic... Do Napoleon: A Life next.
ddogftw on HN
Explanations of economic concepts are good
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It gave me a really good explanation of why costs aren't totally passed onto consumers, and what conditions affect how much cost is passed on. Also, apparently the book says…
hot_gril on HN
Objections
Answers drift off-topic and out of context
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Something seems amiss. You can ask this chatbot how old Stephen King is and you'll get the answer.
rhtgrg on HNI remember seeing a chatbot for fiction from the same website. Looks like it's the same tech but applied to a different book. As the comments have mentioned, it's a fun…
nutanc on HN
Hallucinated or reversed facts on technical topics
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When I asked if monopolies produced more or less goods than competitive markets, it got the effect of economy of scale exactly inverted, and finished with the usual textbook…
marcosdumay on HNThat's what I was afraid it might do with a somewhat technical subject like this, get two words reversed and change the whole meaning.
hot_gril on HN> Is RealPage a cartel? No, realpage is not a cartel. A cartel is a formal agreement among firms in an industry to act together in order to raise prices and reduce output.…
runnerup on HN
Retention suffers because the model can be wrong
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I've been working on that since last year, and notably on GPT-3 and other models on textbooks specifically with a publisher since September - here's how we convinced people:…
james-revisoai on HN
Requests
Show the prompt the bot is responding to
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Very interesting tool! I asked: "Does trickle down economics work?" A1: "No, trickle down economics does not work. It is an economic theory that suggests that if the government…
RobotsDownUnder on HN
Cite sources for quoted answers
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While this sounds pretty on-topic, it also sounds like a direct, barely processed quotation from a book on the subject. Very good retrieval, but may have to credit the quotation…
nine_k on HN
Support for other books such as Napoleon: A Life
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Ok this is epic... Do Napoleon: A Life next.
ddogftw on HN
Questions
How is it built, and how do embeddings work
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So you compress book data with embeddings then use gpt to query this data with NLP?
jcq3 on HNWhat are embeddings?
gardenhedge on HNHow do you do it?
pikseladam on HN
How would spoilers be avoided in fiction
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ooh that sounds cool but how would you avoid spoilers? "Hi, I'm <character>, I died in chapter 32, so when I did X, it's really because..."
fragmede on HN
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Other GPT-3 book chatbots from the same site
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I remember seeing a chatbot for fiction from the same website. Looks like it's the same tech but applied to a different book. As the comments have mentioned, it's a fun…
nutanc on HN
Automatic summarization
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> How do the responses compare to auto-summarization in terms of Big E notation and usefulness? Automatic summarization: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_summarization…
westurner on HN