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Saw a comic in the early days of ChatGPT, I wish I'd saved it: What the applicant writes: "I want this job." How the application is sent: "Dear Sir or Madam,
by ertian 3y ago
Saw a comic in the early days of ChatGPT, I wish I'd saved it:
What the applicant writes: "I want this job."
How the application is sent: "Dear Sir or Madam, I am writing to you today to inquire about the position of blah blah blah..."
What the recruiter reads: "This guy wants this job."
I'd like a tool I could point at a modern tech company website to read through all the meaningless ad copy and buzzwords and spit out a two-sentence summary of what the thing actually does.
- ericbarrett 3y agoChatGPT can already do this. In fact, I think it's much better at this kind of summarization task than it is at novel text generation. You'd have to write some glue code to automate it via the API, though I'd be surprised if there aren't open source tools to do it already. As a demo, try this prompt; you might have to trim some to stay under the token limit: Summarize the major arguments and sentiment of the following Hacker News posts. Provide your answer in a brief, bullet-point format: <paste text of HN comment thread here>
- nradov 3y agoMicrosoft is busy integrating GPT into all of their products. I expect the next release of Outlook to have a button to generate an AI summary of long messages.