This is a game changer. The first thing I was taught at university was how to "gut a book". We were expected to read 15+ texts a week and write 3 essays. The only way that was anywhere near feasible was by doing something akin to what o1 is doing here but with a much higher probability of missing key arguments along the way. AI-assisted "book-gutting" is the future
(P.s. your process still sounds time consuming. How long do you think it took to process the chapters with o1 and then read the summaries end to end?)
Yes! AI-assisted book gutting is a great way of putting it... Using your college technique as a prompt would likely work even better...
To your point though, this still takes a lot of work - there's the logistical part since I can't upload the file directly but that aside, you still have to read and think about it :) I probably spent an hour reading/thinking about it which is less than it would have taken to read the full book but not trivial.
This is a game changer. The first thing I was taught at university was how to "gut a book". We were expected to read 15+ texts a week and write 3 essays. The only way that was anywhere near feasible was by doing something akin to what o1 is doing here but with a much higher probability of missing key arguments along the way. AI-assisted "book-gutting" is the future
(P.s. your process still sounds time consuming. How long do you think it took to process the chapters with o1 and then read the summaries end to end?)
Yes! AI-assisted book gutting is a great way of putting it... Using your college technique as a prompt would likely work even better...
To your point though, this still takes a lot of work - there's the logistical part since I can't upload the file directly but that aside, you still have to read and think about it :) I probably spent an hour reading/thinking about it which is less than it would have taken to read the full book but not trivial.
This is brilliant. Thanks for sharing!