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As someone who periodically listens to papers via text-to-speech, I was intrigued when I saw this link. I'm a little uncertain about the "AI simplification" - If I'm reading a paper I don't want to have the second guess everything I hear as to whether it completely misinterpreted, elided, or hallucinated a point.

Do you have any personal experience with the results?

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“I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.” ― Woody Allen

If the text fits within the context window most models are pretty reliable at summarizing texts effectively.

They’re good at summarizing text convincingly if you didn’t read the original document, but GPT-4 still makes a ton of basic factual mistakes: https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.13249

I think it will be several decades - maybe longer - before you can throw an arbitrary 20-page document into a computer program and get an accurate one-page summary. People need to take seriously that transformer LLMs don’t understand human language.

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