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Re:Ask HN: Has anybody built search on top of Anna's Archive? by sam_lowry_ on Wednesday June 04, 2025 @03:53AM (#44178237)
LLMs already use it, dude )
Re:Ask HN: Has anybody built search on top of Anna's Archive? by exe34 on Wednesday June 04, 2025 @06:23AM (#44179178)
I think one use would be to search for information directly from a book, rather than get a garbled/half-hallucinated version of it.
Re:Ask HN: Has anybody built search on top of Anna's Archive? by jdironman on Wednesday June 04, 2025 @08:24AM (#44179988)
You don't need AI for that. I get the optimistic spirit of what you mean though.
Re:Ask HN: Has anybody built search on top of Anna's Archive? by mdp2021 on Wednesday June 04, 2025 @11:43AM (#44181995)
Optimized information retrieval of complex text is AI.
Re:Ask HN: Has anybody built search on top of Anna's Archive? by echollama on Wednesday June 04, 2025 @01:01PM (#44182887)
garbled/half-hallucinated is probably what you would've gotten 8-12mo ago but now adays im sure with good prompting you can pull value from any book.