We’ve lived with like ChatGPT for over a year now. Last year seemed to be the height of the hype cycle, at least for me. It felt like everyone, from friends to Uber drivers, was excitedly discussing the potential of this groundbreaking technology. However, as often happens with new technological advancements, the initial excitement has dimmed somewhat when faced with the reality of day-to-day use. The trough of disillusionment is real....
Kodak was once the dominant player in the photography industry, selling disposable cameras, film cartridges, and developing photos. However, they failed to invest in digital cameras, which they had invented. They were making so much money on film that they didn’t want to speed up the process of making the old technology obsolete. This approach made sense to Kodak, but customers increasingly preferred instant digital photos. Now, most Gen-Zs have probably never heard of Kodak....
TLDR: I built a semantic movie search app with GPT-4. You can check it out here: https://moviesgpt.net/. And here’s the Github repo: https://github.com/sinzin91/moviesGPT the hero keeps forgetting who he is Idea I’ve been thinking a lot about potential products that one can build around LLMs. One idea I mentioned jokingly to some friends was to use GPT as a natural language interface to a movies API. In theory, I thought, you could ask GPT about movies semantically, meaning you could search based on what the movie is about or its content, instead of just raw keyword search....
TLDR I created SocratesGPT to test the concept of using AI to generate questions about a given topic. Its goal you learn topics better by asking you questions about it. I also provide some technical details on the implementation. Why? Over a year ago, I began using Anki, a spaced repetition flashcard app that helps me retain information over the long term by taking advantage of the Ebbinghaus forgetting curve. Memory is like a leaky bucket, and it was incredibly frustrating to realize I’d forgotten most of what I learned....