Show HN: I turned my microeconomics textbook into a chatbot with GPT-3

Re:Show HN: I turned my microeconomics textbook into a chatb... by nutanc on Thursday February 02, 2023 @08:27PM (#34635937)

I remember seeing a chatbot for fiction from the same website. Looks like it's the same tech but applied to a different book. As the comments have mentioned, it's a fun experiment, but lots of engineering has to be done still to stop out of context answers.

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Re:Show HN: I turned my microeconomics textbook into a chatb... by mnkm on Thursday February 02, 2023 @08:36PM (#34636024)

My buddy and I will start fixing that on Saturday.

Right now we are in San Francisco pitching the idea to try and raise money to work on it full time :)

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Re:Show HN: I turned my microeconomics textbook into a chatb... by james-revisoai on Thursday February 02, 2023 @09:01PM (#34636221)

I've been working on that since last year, and notably on GPT-3 and other models on textbooks specifically with a publisher since September - here's how we convinced people: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7V3VkNj2bag

The problem is the tech can be wrong and that destroys retention. You need to a) verify statements b) consider citing statements c) Identify out-of-domain or "base GPT model response" answer.

All I can say is it has been incredibly hard so far, but we've made noticeable progress recently, and hit recall of 98% for psychology. Having been in OPs shoes, I wouldn't underestimate how temporary traction or a UI doesn't make up for bad retention for these products... it's the core engineering and NLP focus that matters (that's our bet anyway!)

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Re:Show HN: I turned my microeconomics textbook into a chatb... by mnkm on Friday February 03, 2023 @03:29PM (#34647281)

yep -- retention is ghastly rn :p

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