> I thought summarization was a task AI was considered good at. I found this article was a good explanation why this isn’t the case: https://ea.rna.nl/2024/05

> I thought summarization was a task AI was considered good at. I found this article was a good explanation why this isn’t the case: https://ea.rna.nl/2024/05/27/when-chatgpt-summarises-it-actually-does-nothing-of-the-kind/ https://ea.rna.nl/2024/05/27/when-chatgpt-summarises-it-actu... TLDR: it all comes back to the same principle: LLMs are predicting words based on their training. Which means they are not actually summarizing ideas from documents (or whatever other task we give them).