Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
Tried reading two books recently with o1: The Fierce Urgency of Now: Lyndon Johnson, Congress, and the Battle for the Great Society — impressed with how well it could summarize the salient points from the history without mentioning the book. Also asking it study questions (per Tyler Cowen) was useful immediately after reading to gauge comprehension. The Iliad (Lattimore translation) — amazing to use the voice feature while reading. For example all of the epithets and patronymics are immediately translated for you with context. Also you can ask it to recite the Ancient Greek for any of the translated English lines. It’s like reading with a Classics professors on-demand. Overall, incredible experience. A bit sad that I missed school years with this level of AI. Makes me excited for my kids. Bearish Wikipedia rabbit holes. Bullish AI conversational rabbit holes.
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Vinay Vasanji
@vinayvasanji.eth
Related, as Wikipedia loses momentum what other curated and credible human generated source material for LLMs will replace it? Many foundational models were in part trained on Wikipedia https://warpcast.com/vinayvasanji.eth/0x50523ddf
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Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
I don’t think you need as much human curation if you upload all of the Internet and written material. You basically develop PageRank for ideas, similar h-index. Hard to measure but I suspect Wikipedia is way more left leaning than people realize.
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