[speak_plainly]

Reading is not a binary process and you can scale your engagement with any written work. If you use a variety of techniques, there is probably no need for a machine summary.

For example, start by skimming and scanning an article and you may be able to pull out all the salient points and satisfy your reading goal or choose to go deeper with your analysis depending on time and interest and what you are trying to accomplish:

https://advice.writing.utoronto.ca/researching/skim-and-scan...

[fl0ki]

Skimming isn't really possible for people that rely on screen readers. I think effective summarization would be useful for them. Whether this is an effective implementation, however, remains to be seen.

[tomjen3]

It takes much more time to even skim an article than to run it through a summerizer. Not to mention that it’s generally hard to skim a YouTube video.