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I have tried several summarizing services but none does as good a job as a real human. Try to take some article that you haven't read and run it through an algo
by abhi3 11y ago
I have tried several summarizing services but none does as good a job as a real human. Try to take some article that you haven't read and run it through an algorithmic summarizer, most of the time it wil be a very poor experience, specially so when compared to say a friend explaining it to you in short. Thats what wise guy is. I don't believe in the forseeable future AI will be able to beat humans at this but if it gets close it'll only further improve our unit economics.
Currently our unit economics on staff analysers look something like this WITHOUT any tech assistance:
Median wage in low-income english speaking country: $2/hour
Analysis time for a average length 1000 word article: 6 minutes
Actual cost/article: 20 cents
Average Views per summarry at scale: 20 (Extremply conservative estimate, the Apple summary got 1000 views in an less than an hour)
As you can see the average cost of Human summarizing/view is less than a cent. Such a service at such a low price point should be seen as valuable by a large number of people; or at the very least sustained by advertisment (though I would very much prefer a subscription or micropayment based business model)
- heartbreak 11y agoHow do you determine how many views your HN comment received?
- abhi3 11y agoI estimated from the number of people who clicked through the link in the post and further to the medium post on the headline links to. The number would be very close to 1000 at the very least, but most likely several thousand.