AI can already summarize what is written in a book

AI produces new news for us almost every day, and more and more companies are launching to offer services using this technology.

Today I am going to comment on the case of the Anthropic company that has released an AI program called Claude 2 that is capable of summarizing what is written in a book, and does so in just one minute.

To do this, read the book and then generate a summary of the main content. The summary is an accurate and concise representation of the book, and can be a useful tool for students and readers who want to get an overview of the book before reading it in its entirety.

One of the problems, which is already being discussed in many forums, is that AI learns with the “information” that circulates on the Internet, and a large part of that information has an “owner”, as is the case with books.

This program, for example, learns by reading books, but the authors of those books do not obtain any benefit, while the AI company does, or will do so in the future.

According to the Anthropic company (which is located in San Francisco, USA), they are concerned that their programs are not harmful to humans, and they define the security of their method as “Constitutional AI”, since they say that their chatbot is trained according to the principles included in the UN declaration of 1948.

It is very appreciated that this is the case, but all those who sell us their products tell us the good things, and hide the less good things about their products from us.

Some journalists have already carried out tests with this chatbot, and according to what they indicate, it is quite accurate in their summary of the book in question. And what I don’t know is what students will do when their teachers ask them to summarize a book. Although I can imagine.

What is very clear is that in a systematic and fairly fast way, AI chatbots are performing functions for which a certain intellectual capacity is required. And they do it in a very short time.

Taking the reasoning forward, the more “intelligent” things machines do for us, the less we have to think, and therefore the less intelligent we become, at least most people.

Something to reflect !!!!