mahouk

Vannevar Bush?

I wonder if the transformer inventors will ever get a Turing (honestly proving to be one of the most transformative - no pun intended - technologies of the millennium so far). I know pretty much all of them left Google but they'd still be counted as alumni.

How can one build a visualisation like this?

And does something like this exist but for the web?

Does Gemini have a date cutoff at all?

You can ask it. Here's what it responded with:

"Do you mean to ask if I have a cutoff date for the data I was trained on? If so, the answer is yes. My training data includes text and code from various sources, and the most recent data I was trained on was from July 2023."

That error you got the first time means your query contains words that triggered the OpenAI content filter.

I agree with the other comments on the hallucinations in the content, hence why I did include a disclaimer at the bottom of every page. This project is something I did to just test out the idea of an encyclopedia-like UI on GPT.

Thanks, I appreciate the kind words

I'm just new to devops stuff because the things I usually build don't get that much traffic, and a single server did the job without the need for CDNs, load balancers, etc. I had to figure this stuff out just now over the past few hours to help the site cope with all the load.

I found myself frequently using ChatGPT to learn about new topics. I prefer it over Wikipedia because when I don't understand something, I can just ask it and it can clarify it for me until I get it. However, I found the chat UI to be unideal for this sort of thing, so I created this website using a UX that is aimed at educational use.

Update:

Sorry guys, but it seems the server has crashed due to a sudden influx of traffic, and I'm attending a funeral service at the moment so I don't have access to my laptop. Will try to get the site back up asap!

I'll test out a conclusion-less format and see how my friends find it.

I thought the image was generated by AI.

That was my initial plan, but I found AI-generated images to be more entertaining than informative, especially when the topic is new to the reader.

P.S. I don't know if you already tried this, but if you highlight any snippet of text in an entry, you can start a realtime chat about that text (without having to provide any context yourself).

Thanks!

The images are real images from the web. In most cases they match the topic you search for but in some cases they turn out to be unrelated. (I already have an idea on how to try and improve accuracy here).

As for the conclusions, you're right now that you point it out. I don't recall coming across conclusion sections in other encyclopedias I read. it's a format GPT (which is the underlying LLM I'm using) seems to like to use by default. I didn't disable that behavior because I guess a conclusion to wrap everything up for the reader isn't a bad thing?

Here's a clickable link to the site: https://scapehouse.com