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

konjer.xyz
51 points·by mnkm·3 jaar geleden·57 comments

Show HN: Turning books into chatbots with GPT-3

konjer.xyz
261 points·by mnkm·3 jaar geleden·173 comments

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

konjer.xyz
1 points·by mnkm·3 jaar geleden·3 comments

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

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