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hoc | 10 months ago

By having to defend your (thesis)/work like this, the whole piece is getting lifted into academic heights in a way, so you could as well keep calling its result and process research :)

What description would itself come up with, BTW?

When you anwer with "I agree, LLMs have biases.", I immediately suspect that to be an LLM calming me after correcting it, though. So, the world has definitely changed and we might need to allow for correcting the broadness of words and meanings.

After all you did not write thesis, scientific research or similar and I remember it being called researching when people went looking up sources (which took them longer than an agent or LLM these days). Compressing that into a report might make it a review, but anyway. Great that you assembled a useful work tool here for some who need exactly that.

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nickwatson|10 months ago

I'm very curious. As it's main purpose is built to really search and decide balanced/unbias sources and not really have an opinion, what the result would be of such a question. I'm curious if it will give an answer on this. I just gave it the request:

"I am struggling what to call this other than "Deep Research tool" as really it is looking online and scanning/synthesizing sources (that's you, by the way!). With that in mind, someone suggested "literature review" but it makes me think of books. I wonder if you can see what this kind of "research" is and suggest a name to describ it based on all the information you uncover on what good research looks like."

Let's see how it gets on...

Also, something I think about a lot (you sound like a deep thinker!) - when we discover something that is untrue, can it make it true? (purely hypothetical thought)... if 1000 people were told coffee was bad for them, does the mind-body connection take over and amplify this into reality. We are certainly in interesting times!

nickwatson|10 months ago

Ha, hoc - it was quite interesting to see, and learn a bit about this.

Apparently the suggested term is "Digital Information Synthesis"

You can see the report here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Vg_UWUPelWohzVGduaKY7Czd...

This was quite an interesting use case, thanks!

hoc|10 months ago

Well, it seems it uses the word "research" quite a lot for what it's doing (first paragraph and last one with "deep research") but does choose some artificially constructed one as the result.

Personally I had similar results when searching for known terms for certain concepts that I didn't know the name for. And usually I had to guide the process to find the actual expression used in the domain (it usually made up a lot of fancy and well-fitted names itself). And sometimes it helped to gonback and change the query. Harder if you have to wait that long, though :)

So.. I guess I would trust its process (mentioning "research" a lot) more than its chosen result :) Not sure if it you wanted it to be a synthesizer or rather an assistant. I'd go with what is closer to your intention or what you think it resulted in in the end.

An interesting observation might be that guiding that (I don't dare to say it, but anyway) research process might still be an important part and the network's self-evaluation might not be as good as one would need it to be at this point in time. I'd guess it's about adding ones personal judgement early to not end up at the wrong spot after a long processing time. Then again you are using a certain selection of simple and more complex models, so I can't say if there might be a way to have that kind of harsher judgement that one would apply oneself emulated in the proces and what side effects might come form that choice of models you made.

In the end I was just surprised by the number of picky replies your post got, so I just thought that you discussing the perfect description with the LLM might make be a fun solution. Personally I am a big fan of interactively talking to LLMs at the moment though, so I might be the wrong guy to know your intended audience and use case enough. Just couldn't see how using the term "research" would be the problem.

nickwatson|10 months ago

I updated the Readme now, to describe as "CleverBee: AI-Powered Online Data Information Synthesis Assistant" and put emphasis on the synthesis.

Also, put a new section in place:

What cleverb.ee is not Cleverb.ee is not a replacement for deep domain expertise. Despite explicit instructions and low temperature settings, AI can still hallucinate. Always check the sources.