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bealuga | 2 years ago

That would be really really cool if I could able to serve that space. I'd be curious to know what kind of features you'd want to have, what would be deal-breakers, etc!

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dash2|2 years ago

Basic setup: point it at a folder of PDFs, have it recurse in and read them all, then ask it questions like:

* Summarize these papers on chimpanzee cooperation in the wild. What other papers should I be reading?

* Suggest an interesting master's thesis topic on the early modern economy.

* How good are polygenic scores at predicting educational attainment, and how has this developed over time?

Bonus: integrate it with e.g. google scholar, so it can go and find and read new papers.

Pricing: it is probably easier to start selling this to individual academics. Then when you've got a compelling product and the word is out, you could sell it to the whole lab (at a much higher price because people can put it in their grant budgets).

Gotchas: privacy. Nobody wants their hot unpublished paper to be scooped by a large language model.

MaxikCZ|2 years ago

Not person with original question but he asks for the same feature as I would like to see.

I am not sure how the documents are handled in your product, since Chat GPT has a context limit that probably wont be able to hold longer papers in memory.

For me, I have a pdf[0] depicting a system that can be programmed, along with bits of pseudo-code and a lot of clarifications. Something that the Chat GPT could use to spit out an actual implementation, if it were able to "think" about the pdf as a whole. I would love to see if your product is capable of such feat.

[0]: https://arrow.tudublin.ie/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1177&c...

Drive-Based Utility-Maximizing Computer Game Non-Player Characters by Colm Sloan (note that basically only chapter 3 is needed in this case, but its still over 40 pages long)