I’ve been writing a series of articles about using OpenAI’s GPT (currently the model text-davinci-003) to summarize youtube videos, and other kinds of documents, and to interactively chat about those documents. I’ve got plans. Plans that involve my GPT-based chatbots having access to the internet to get more information. …

NOTE: All code in this article comes from my ai experiments repo: https://github.com/emlynoregan/newaiexp In Summarize Youtube with text-davinci-003, I presented a python script that summarizes a youtube video like this: > python .\ytsummary.py https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdrZf4lQTSg Summary of section beginning at 0:00:00 — — - In this section of the transcript, the speaker…

With the availability of OpenAI’s “text-davinci-003” (or ChatGPT), the world changed in late 2022. We’ve moved from a world where only humans were intelligent, to one in which computers now can be too. As a software developer, this demands my attention. The original davinci model pulled me into this space…

Hi there! Have you ever come across a long web page or text file and wished you could just get a quick summary of its main points? Well, now you can with the new summarize_web_or_text.py script! https://github.com/emlynoregan/newaiexp/blob/main/README-summarize_web_or_text.md This script allows you to easily summarize a web page or text file…

Someone sends you a link to a video. Looks interesting! But you click it, and, oh man, it’s 3 hours long. Is any of this worth your time? I have this problem daily. So, I wrote this short python script, ytsummary.py, that, based on the transcript, will summarize a youtube…

Using GPT-3 as your GM I love text adventures and other fantasy computer games. I’ve always been a bit disappointed by them, though, because of the canned dialogue. Wouldn’t it be great if you could just speak to the characters, and they could speak back to you? With the advent…

This post is about a partially formed idea for a computer-mediated platform which could work as an alternative to money for the distribution of scarce resources. It’s from an online chat with a friend, back near the end of April, 2020. …

Powerful currents Wherever you look, people are pessimistic about the future. Whether it’s climate change or the end times, increasingly we are all doomsday prophets. …

Maybe you’ve read about new cloud software that doesn’t require provisioning servers? Maybe you’ve heard of Serverless Computing, or even FaaS? Maybe you’ve seen AWS Lambda, and been itching to find out what that’s all about? In this article we’ll get a simple Lambda running in Amazon Web Services, and…