One of the key skills of large language models like ChatGPT is their ability to rapidly read and summarize texts, such as journal articles or, with training, doctor-patient interviews.
This weekend, I used AI to summarize several podcasts and a book that I encountered. AI can instantly produce information in different formats. For example, AI can first create a traditional book review and then, in the next moment, show you the same material as a Q&A with five questions and five answers. The Q&A format can enhance engagement and retention (see Chat GPT 4o on Socratic Method).
- Reed Jobs Interview.
- Kara Swisher interviews philanthropist Reed Jobs on his fund for oncology investments, Yosemite (2024).
- New Innovation Book.
- New book on innovation, and how big innovations can find their new marketplace.
- "Heart of Innovation: Navigating Authentic Demand" (Chanoff et al, 2023) (200pp)
- https://bqwebpage.blogspot.com/2024/05/ai-corner-book-review-of-heart-of.html
- Note that in the last section of this webpage, I ask AI to apply the book's lessons to genomic test commercialization.
- I found this book worthwhile enough, that I listened to the four-hour audiobook in one weekend.
- Mark Zuckerberg, on AI's Future
- Mark Zuckerberg is interviewed by tech guru Dwarkesh Patel (2024)
- https://bqwebpage.blogspot.com/2024/05/ai-corner-summary-dwarkesh-patel.html
- ? Who is Dwarkesh Patel? "Futurati" interviews Patel on AI futurology.
- https://bqwebpage.blogspot.com/2024/05/ai-corner-summary-who-is-dwarkesh-patel.html
I also asked ChatGPT-4 to summarize the reasons for reading a whole book versus a concise summary of it.
- Why summarize?
- What's the value of condensed information? We ask Chat GPT 4o to opine.
- https://bqwebpage.blogspot.com/2024/05/the-whole-book-versus-2-summary-pro-and.html
See another example of summarization by AI, from an earlier blog. Novitas released a very long transcript of 20 speakers at a public LCD meeting. I fed each page (speaker) of transcript into Chat GPT, getting a concise paragraph summary of each speaker's main message(s). Here.
