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

konjer.xyz
51 points·by mnkm·3 years ago·57 comments

Show HN: Turning books into chatbots with GPT-3

konjer.xyz
261 points·by mnkm·3 years ago·173 comments

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

konjer.xyz
1 points·by mnkm·3 years ago·3 comments

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mnkm
·3 years ago·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
·3 years ago·discuss
this is cool!
mnkm
·3 years ago·discuss
yep -- held off on textbooks for this reason.
mnkm
·3 years ago·discuss
yea they basically just say things that sound plausible
mnkm
·3 years ago·discuss
cool little interaction -- thank you for your feedback.
mnkm
·3 years ago·discuss
yep -- retention is ghastly rn :p
mnkm
·3 years ago·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
·3 years ago·discuss
sick suggestion
mnkm
·3 years ago·discuss
this is too good.
mnkm
·3 years ago·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
·3 years ago·discuss
Ohh!! Sorry -- that was my first time to HN. Will remember this for the next time!
mnkm
·3 years ago·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
·3 years ago·discuss
exactly!
mnkm
·3 years ago·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
·3 years ago·discuss
see for yourself :)

https://www.konjer.xyz/eiman/the-quran
mnkm
·3 years ago·discuss
Try asking the book questions about the specific topics that it covers.
mnkm
·3 years ago·discuss
Looks like OpenAI is getting hammered currently.
mnkm
·3 years ago·discuss
if one book does not work I would suggest trying a different one. working on fixing this!
mnkm
·3 years ago·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
·3 years ago·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.