AidfulAI newsletter covering Snipd's new AI Notes feature. The feature provides you with personalized notes from the podcast you listened to, simply by tapping your headphones every time you hear something interesting.
Why should there even be something like cash back or points programs? These programs are taking money from the merchant and giving it to the end-consumer, while the middle-men keep a cut.
I believe a world without these programs (or as you said “watered-down” versions) is more fair for the merchant and others shoppers not using such cards.
Especially if the merchant is not allowed to charge the end-consumer with this added fee.
I had similar thoughts about the general concept of using AI to automate AI Safety.
I really like their approach and I think it’s valuable. And in this particular case, they do have a way to score the explainer model.
And I think it could be very valuable for various AI Safety issues.
However, I don’t yet see how it can help with the potentially biggest danger where a super intelligent AGI is created that is not aligned with humans.
The newly created AGI might be 10x more intelligent than the explainer model. To such an extent that the explainer model is not capable of understanding any tactics deployed by the super intelligent AGI. The same way ants are most probably not capable of explaining the tactics delloyed by humans, even if we gave them a 100 years to figure it out.
As someone who has created several LLM-based applications running in production, my personal experience with langchain has been that it is too high of an abstraction for steps that in the end are actually fairly simple.
And as soon as you want to slightly modify something to better accomodate your use-case, you are trapped in layers & layers of Python boiler plate code and unnecessary abstractions.
Maybe our llm applications haven’t been complex enough to warrent the use of langchain, but if that’s the case, then I wonder how many of such complex applications actually exist today.
-> Anyways, I came away feeling quite let down by the hype.
For my own personal workflow, a more “hackable” architecture would be much more valuable. Totally fine if that means it’s less “general”.
As a comparison, I remember the early days of HugginfaceTransformers where they did not try to create a 100% high-level general abstraction on top of every conceivable Neural Network architecture. Instead, each model architecture was somewhat separate from one another, making it much easier to “hack” it.
Lex Fridman usually asks his guests about their advice for young people. It's one of my favorite aspects of the show. So at some point I decided to collect those sections from the podcast as "snips". I recently went back to them and while doing so, selected my favorite ones. From guests like Elon Musk, Yann LeCun, Demis Hassabis, etc.
I hope it's as valuable to you as it has been to me :)
This is quite a thorough article by TechCrunch about the podcast app Snipd, and how they use AI to try to recommend you the best highlights in podcasts and let you save interesting moments with transcript.
Love it! :) Have been using it in beta for a while now. It's great to have everything synced automatically. Have used it multiple times to share my highlights of a particular episode with a friend by just sharing the synced Notion page!
We do not yet have AI features for private feeds. But we do have it on the roadmap.
Depending on when you tested it last year, you were probably not even able to add your private feeds. In the meantime, you can add your private feeds and listen to them, just like any other podcast app. You can also create highlights, but without the transcript or any other AI features.
I've added your vote to this feature request to increase its priority.
We do have this in the back of our minds as a possible way to branch out in the future. But for now, we want to first focus all our energy on creating the best experience for podcasts.
I'll add your vote to this feature request ;)
I think it would go nicely together, but as you also already mentioned, there are a couple of challenges like how to integrate into an app like Audible.
Completely get that. I always had the same issue with podcasts, which is why I built Snipd together with some friends. If you have the mp3 of the audiobook you can create your own private rss feed with services like SimpleCast and add that to our player.
For private feeds we don't yet have our AI features activated, but you can still highlight your favorite moments, add your notes and sync them to Readwise.