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Show HN: CongressGPT – understand what Congress is actually doing

4 points by thealexkates 2y ago

Chat with real bills from the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate! Over 153 bills available for chat context New bills are added nightly from govinfo.gov New bills are added nightly from govinfo.gov using Vercel Cron. Bills are downloaded, vectorized, and stored in a Supabase database. Users can then chat with bills using NLP, RAG and OpenAI.

ibdf 2y ago
This is pretty interesting, but this has been my experience so far: Tell me more about bill XXXXXX: "Based on the provided context, there is no information available about a bill numbered XXXXXX" Then it lists bills it knows about, but when you ask about any bills on that list, it says the same thing as the previous one. If you can't tell me about the bill/resolution maybe it would be more helpful if it could link me to more info about it.
- thealexkates 2y ago
  Thanks for the feedback! I'll look into making this better. I like the idea of showing the links to the bill as well.
alsetmusic 2y ago
This strikes me as a terrible idea. We already saw an example of a city using "AI" to give legal advice that gave inaccurate info.[0] It's important to remember that this technology is error-prone and use it with that in mind. Summarizing laws? Hard pass. [0] https://www.reuters.com/technology/new-york-city-defends-ai-chatbot-that-advised-entrepreneurs-break-laws-2024-04-04/ https://www.reuters.com/technology/new-york-city-defends-ai-...
- thealexkates 2y ago
  I agree legal advice is not a great idea. This is really meant as a free to use education tool. I think I'll add a disclaimer of some sort so people know to use at their own risk :) Thanks for trying it!
thebuilderjr 2y ago
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- codingdave 2y ago
  > AI is known for directness and efficiency. wat. AIs suffer from hallucinations and manipulation via prompts. Any chat via this tool needs to be taken with a huge grain of salt. It is an interesting exercise, I'll grant you that, but users gotta be careful trusting the results from this one.
  - thealexkates 2y ago
    I agree I think I'm going to add a disclaimer so people know a bit more about hallucination and such. Thanks for trying it out!
- thealexkates 2y ago
  Thanks! Appreciate you trying it out. Was a great way for me to learn RAG

4 points by thealexkates 2y ago

ibdf 2y ago

This is pretty interesting, but this has been my experience so far: Tell me more about bill XXXXXX: "Based on the provided context, there is no information available about a bill numbered XXXXXX" Then it lists bills it knows about, but when you ask about any bills on that list, it says the same thing as the previous one. If you can't tell me about the bill/resolution maybe it would be more helpful if it could link me to more info about it.

thealexkates 2y ago
Thanks for the feedback! I'll look into making this better. I like the idea of showing the links to the bill as well.

alsetmusic 2y ago

This strikes me as a terrible idea. We already saw an example of a city using "AI" to give legal advice that gave inaccurate info.[0] It's important to remember that this technology is error-prone and use it with that in mind. Summarizing laws? Hard pass. [0] https://www.reuters.com/technology/new-york-city-defends-ai-chatbot-that-advised-entrepreneurs-break-laws-2024-04-04/ https://www.reuters.com/technology/new-york-city-defends-ai-...

thealexkates 2y ago
I agree legal advice is not a great idea. This is really meant as a free to use education tool. I think I'll add a disclaimer of some sort so people know to use at their own risk :) Thanks for trying it!

thebuilderjr 2y ago

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codingdave 2y ago
> AI is known for directness and efficiency. wat. AIs suffer from hallucinations and manipulation via prompts. Any chat via this tool needs to be taken with a huge grain of salt. It is an interesting exercise, I'll grant you that, but users gotta be careful trusting the results from this one.
- thealexkates 2y ago
  I agree I think I'm going to add a disclaimer so people know a bit more about hallucination and such. Thanks for trying it out!
thealexkates 2y ago
Thanks! Appreciate you trying it out. Was a great way for me to learn RAG