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That's cool! Could we have a desktop version to data-mine local collections of knowledge material (i.e. all kinds of media)? I would really like an AI desktop
by still_grokking 5y ago
That's cool!
Could we have a desktop version to data-mine local collections of knowledge material (i.e. all kinds of media)?
I would really like an AI desktop search engine that can answer natural language questions.
- api 5y ago> Could we have a desktop version to data-mine local collections of knowledge material (i.e. all kinds of media)? What? You can run software on a computer you own? How does it work if it doesn't have cloud in it?
- still_grokking 5y agoSome ancient magic, I guess.
- stuhlmueller 5y agoSame! Pretty sure there will be tons of products for semantic search over local & cloud files within the next 1-2 years. For now we've chosen to build Elicit around aggregating and synthesizing research - what is the evidence in each paper, what are the arguments, how do they come together to inform questions people care about? We think research is a good starting point for figuring out how to use language models to do high-quality reasoning because (a) researchers care a lot about what's true and (b) research is already more structured than most other sources of knowledge.
- still_grokking 5y agoI would be fine with something that would sort and structure my collection of research papers as a starter. :-) Actually it would be interesting to mix in some world-knowledge base like Cyc into such tool to make querying more powerful, and maybe even enable deduction of additional information out of the recognized facts and structures. But it should still run locally of course. I'm refusing to pay for any SaaS offers. Especially as it comes to research with commercial background it's also a matter of confidentiality. So I guess I'm not the only one who would prefer to have such a thing strictly on-prem.