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Search by description. Basically if google fails me I want to be able to describe my problem and get suggestions and answers from that. I know this is now poss
by iandanforth 5y ago
Search by description. Basically if google fails me I want to be able to describe my problem and get suggestions and answers from that.
I know this is now possible as I recently asked OpenAI Codex to do just this. I described the problem I had and asked it complete the best python library to solve it. It suggested a library I hadn't heard of but was just what I needed.
This also works with the older tool 'citeomatic' from Allen AI. You can describe the paper you want to read and it will give you a reading list. (Not exactly the intent of the tool, but it worked well while it was up to date).
I think there's room for both a medium form (a paragraph description) direct query tool and a chatbot like tool that tries to iteratively refine the search.