Ask HN: What is the AI that Ray Kurzweil talks about in Lex Friedman?

1 points by LeSUTHU 3y ago ↗ HN

I was watching the Lex Friedman with Ray Kurzweil podcast and Ray Kurzweil mentions this AI where it reads 200,000 books and if you ask it a question, it will find you a sentence that best answers your question. He said it came out 6 years ago?

I got interested in it and wanted to look into it but couldn’t find what it is

Anyone know what this AI is?

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alexcnwy 3y ago ↗

I suspect it’s this model or something similar: https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.01604

Question Answering is a rich area of research in NLP - this is a good place to start: https://paperswithcode.com/task/question-answering

brutus1213 3y ago ↗

Most modern language models seem to do that to an extent. Even github's co-pilot sort of does this (with code instead of books). The models can even synthesize, which starts getting really impressive. Check out Flamingo from Google, which is a VLM (vision-language model). There, it can answer questions about the content of new images and even incorporate new information.

tiagofreitas87 3y ago ↗

He specificaly said it was a product that was probably still available on the market. Sounds really interesting and hard to find, I hope something like this comes out based on LLMs that can be easily fine tuned.

tiagofreitas87 3y ago ↗

Found it: https://experiments.withgoogle.com/talk-to-books