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Show HN: I turned my microeconomics textbook into a chatbot with GPT-3

konjer.xyz
51 points·by mnkm·vor 3 Jahren·57 comments

Show HN: Turning books into chatbots with GPT-3

konjer.xyz
261 points·by mnkm·vor 3 Jahren·173 comments

Show HN: Using GPT-3 to “talk” to books

konjer.xyz
1 points·by mnkm·vor 3 Jahren·3 comments

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mnkm
·vor 3 Jahren·discuss
What do you think about the responses generated by this:

https://www.konjer.xyz/the-alchemist (disclaimer: built by me)

What specifically is missing from the answers in your opinion?
mnkm
·vor 3 Jahren·discuss
this is cool!
mnkm
·vor 3 Jahren·discuss
yep -- held off on textbooks for this reason.
mnkm
·vor 3 Jahren·discuss
yea they basically just say things that sound plausible
mnkm
·vor 3 Jahren·discuss
cool little interaction -- thank you for your feedback.
mnkm
·vor 3 Jahren·discuss
yep -- retention is ghastly rn :p
mnkm
·vor 3 Jahren·discuss
more immersive fiction experiences coming hopefully this month!

definitely subscribe to the newsletter or join the book club to be notified when new things get added.

Book Club: https://discord.com/invite/2yzGD3sSRu

Newsletter: https://konjer.beehiiv.com/subscribe
mnkm
·vor 3 Jahren·discuss
sick suggestion
mnkm
·vor 3 Jahren·discuss
this is too good.
mnkm
·vor 3 Jahren·discuss
Sahil Lavingia from Gumroad has an amazing video on his YouTube channel called "AI in a Day" that explains it at a high level.
mnkm
·vor 3 Jahren·discuss
Ohh!! Sorry -- that was my first time to HN. Will remember this for the next time!
mnkm
·vor 3 Jahren·discuss
Each book is best at answering questions on its own source material. For now though, it will sometimes answer stuff not related to the book.

The litmus test I use is always asking a new book "Do you know anything about the Chamber of Secrets" -- often times will say no. Sometimes will return the most semantically similar thing it can find.

This will be fixed eventually!
mnkm
·vor 3 Jahren·discuss
exactly!
mnkm
·vor 3 Jahren·discuss
My buddy and I will start fixing that on Saturday.

Right now we are in San Francisco pitching the idea to try and raise money to work on it full time :)
mnkm
·vor 3 Jahren·discuss
see for yourself :)

https://www.konjer.xyz/eiman/the-quran
mnkm
·vor 3 Jahren·discuss
Try asking the book questions about the specific topics that it covers.
mnkm
·vor 3 Jahren·discuss
Looks like OpenAI is getting hammered currently.
mnkm
·vor 3 Jahren·discuss
if one book does not work I would suggest trying a different one. working on fixing this!
mnkm
·vor 3 Jahren·discuss
I posted this earlier but I have a free weekly newsletter for this project. I take book requests from readers, and document the process of building out the library. Readers also get early access to books as they come out.

https://konjer.beehiiv.com/subscribe
mnkm
·vor 3 Jahren·discuss
Definitely. I've done this for a couple people already actually. At the bottom of the books page I have a link for exactly that kind of use case.