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This is a problem I expect to be fully and thoroughly solved by LLMs very soon; no longer should we have to concern ourselves with rephrasing things for different audiences than our peer groups. Scientists often aren’t also great writers, and if they don’t have to be, they can focus more on their actual area of expertise.

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It boggles my mind that there are 100 products for AI summarization for every 1 that does filtering, classification, recommendation, clustering, etc.

It seems some A.I. influencers can ask for a kilogram of antimatter and get it, but when the rest of use use Google, we get worthless A.I. summaries at the top of the page, like the one that told me to reset my network switch by (1) turning it off, and (2) then pressing the reset button for five seconds (does nothing because... no power!)

This study shows the kind of results that the "rest of us" get

https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/12/bbc_ai_news_accuracy/

Here is a good AI tool that you can use for free.

https://cofyt.app for YouTube summaries, instant takeaways, and chat with video transcript.

Don't complain, try it and come back here and give your feedback so that others can read.

That's a better use case. I can skim a long document quickly but I can't quickly skim a 30 minute YouTube video. It's pretty fast though... Does YouTube already have a transcript that it's reading?

I'm not suggesting in any way that this replaces watching all YouTube videos but it could help you save some time with some types of video content and a co-pilot for others.

You can try to ask it for things to your requirements,be descriptive.

For example: - you can ask it to list topics or tags in that video.

- you can ask it for specific timecodes/ Timestamps when topic X is mentioned

- you can ask it to tell you what's happening in time blocks/Chunks of x minutes.

be descriptive and ask for the format you want: lists, bullets, list with description, etc

Thanks for the feedback.

While I agree with you, note those directions may not be wrong. Many modern electronic devices do not completely power down when you turn them "off". Unplugging does (once the capacitors drain) but not necessarily using the power switch.

For this device that's wrong

https://store.ui.com/us/en/products/usw-lite-8-poe

but I would say that device is poorly documented, you have to go to the forums to get all details, one of which is that you definitely don't want to hold down the reset button when it is off and then turn it on (holding the button down) because that will boot it up in TFTP mode which I guess loads the system software over the network.

Mine wasn't lighting up any lights when I plugged ethernet cables into it, the reset button didn't do anything if the power was on or off. They RMAed it, I hope the next one works out better.

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