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Suggestion: Have an AI or text analyzer assign a grade level to all documentaries and talks. I say this after wasting some time tonight trying to find a documen
by labrador 4y ago
Suggestion: Have an AI or text analyzer assign a grade level to all documentaries and talks. I say this after wasting some time tonight trying to find a documentary or lecture on early humans. The first 4 I tried were 6th to 8th grade level while one was in the style of Bible stories, so it was for even younger.
The nearest I can figure is home schoolers are creating these for their kids and uploading to pass them around. Their popularity appears to crowding out all the college level material.
- smcl 4y agoI can't help feeling this is a modern day repeat of JWZ's old aphorism on regexes, and the root cause of quite a lot of user frustration with Google products: > Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use AI." Now they have two problems.
- labrador 4y agoI don't know what you call a tool that ranks text by grammar complexity and word obscurity so I called it AI or just "text analyzer"
- smcl 4y agoAhh I see what you mean, sorry HN has broken my brain a little around the word "AI". Here when it's proposed as a solution to something is often used like "unspecified magic", but the application you have in mind is quite specific and reasonable :)