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by setgree 2132 days ago
I'm excited to see where this goes -- both this product and the general idea of using ML to reduce noise in interpersonal communications.

A human can read the shorter summary and add personal touches as they wish, but the first pass of what the model considers to be extraneous is interesting by itself.

I just put in a 300 word personal email and it spit out a 60 word summary that actually did extract the one concrete piece of news I was sharing, and just cut everything else. That's not precisely what I wanted in this case, but it wasn't a bad guess at all.

Side note: just finished a rewatch of Silicon Valley, I like that the sample text is from someone at Hooli, I wonder if it will change my .... to ... :)

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So long as it's not doing that while operating on ciphertext.