Project 2
- I also built a YouTube summarizer for individual video called Summary Cat (https://www.summarycat.com). It is not open source for now. The stack is very similar to project 1.
And, although our theologies diverge quite a bit, I found that the Bible Binge podcast is pretty entertaining. It "translates" Bible stories into modern pop culture references: https://faithadjacent.com/show/theclassics/
Mere Christianity is trash. Couldn't even get through the first chapter because he calls out atheism almost immediately and basically says it's not even worth discussing because it's stupid and not an actual philosophy, which just strikes me as pure intellectual laziness, especially in a book about religion. Avoid, especially if you're an atheist trying to approach religion.
It's the very beginning of "Book Two" of Mere Christianity. Not only were his direct quotes about atheism just generally terrible, his logical argument about atheism was equally terrible. I'm genuinely surprised he's hailed as this great theologian or philosopher when he can't piece together a simple argument about theism vs. atheism. Like truly, these arguments in Book Two sound like some teenager in a youth group wrote them.
If you have any questions, lemme know. I've been collecting questions and seeing if I can tie them all back to a particular idea. It's nice when things fit together like that
Mainly because knowledge about Christianity is the most physically accessible to me, as I am a next-door neighbour to a Theology professor of New Testament.
Goal: Generate brief and coherent summaries from YouTube video transcripts
Motivation of building this project: to save myself time watching videos that are too long.
Stack
• Frontend: HTML/CSS, plus a tiny bit of Javascript for handling the button
• Backend: Python/Flask
• Flask served as the backend web framework, handling routes and integrating various services.
• Front+Backend has about 500 lines in total
• Hosting: AWS Free-tier Elastic Beanstalk
• Database: AWS Free-tier RDS
My Prompt (Super Simple!)
• "please summarize the following text into a few paragraphs:" + the full transcript.
Thoughts about GPT-4 vs GPT-3.5-Turbo-16k or Summary Cat
• GPT-4 was 20% better for "summary quality"
• GPT-4 feels 50% faster
• However, GPT-4 is about 10X as expensive as GPT-3.5
I agree that this is happening " an arms race between youtube forcing creators to make videos 8 mins long min to be able to get mid roll ads and people coming up with ways to summarize the transcript." Along the same line: I have been thinking about how my Summary Cat might mean for the content creators. How would it impact their income?
Your "use the summarizer to re-cut the videos" is fantastic!
GPT-4's answer: StevenNunez is humorously suggesting that "Prompt Engineers," who are people skilled in crafting effective prompts for AI models, might find bing_dai's simple prompt too basic. They may propose complex and intricately designed prompts to enhance the output quality or add more context to it.
I think GPT-4 didn't quite get it but StevenNunez is making fun of the overly complex prompts people sometimes use (which, to be fair, was more important before instruct and chat tuning)
