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Want to point out that these one to two sentence summaries are not abstracts. They lack the structure and content of actual abstracts. Also how can they be comm
by tokai 3y ago
Want to point out that these one to two sentence summaries are not abstracts. They lack the structure and content of actual abstracts. Also how can they be community-written if they are written by AI (edit: disregard this, I'm an idiot)? Also also, this should be Show HN right?
- wrasee 3y agoIt’s only from your comment that I realise that this was posted by the author, seems reasonable that should at least be acknowledged.
- wongarsu 3y agoWhich is really what makes them useful. Abstracts are great at what they try to be, but the typical abstract requires a lot of attention to actually read. These summaries lend themselves to quickly scanning over a list of papers to figure out which ones you want to read the abstract of. They are somewhere between summaries and better titles.
- matt1 3y agoIf you're a fan of tldr-ai, you might also like my site, EmergentMind.com, which does something similar: it surfaces trending AI papers based on social media engagement (including HackerNews upvotes!), then summarizes those papers using GPT-4 (a bullet point summary + detailed writeup based on the actual content of the paper), and highlights discussions on HN, Reddit, YouTube, GitHub, and X about that paper. I don't want to highjack this launch post (we definitely need more tools in this space!), just wanted to share my tool for anyone interested since it's related. Feedback welcome: matt@emergentmind.com.
- ofou 3y ago“The Net’s interactivity gives us powerful new tools for finding information, expressing ourselves, and conversing with others. It also turns us into lab rats constantly pressing levers to get tiny pellets of social or intellectual nourishment.” ― Nicholas G. Carr, The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains