United States: An artificial intelligence can now summarize a book in a few lines

The company OpenAI presented on September 23 a new possible use of its text generation system by artificial intelligence (AI) GPT-3, reports VentureBeat, relayed by Presse-Citron this Sunday. This is a model for automatically creating the summary of a book, regardless of the length of the book, can we read on the company's blog.

To achieve this task, the AI ​​developed by OpenAI begins by summarizing the book section by section. Then, it produces a synthesis of these various partial summaries. It is this approach to the problem, by "recursive decomposition of tasks", which allows the tool of American society to be able to summarize a book regardless of its length. It is also possible to configure the system to have a more or less long summary, or with more or less detail.

A technology studied by Google, Microsoft or Facebook

In their announcement, OpenAI claimed that their AI model was able to generate summaries sometimes reaching the level of "an average quality summary written by a human. However, many problems remain to be solved. The new system would, for example, tend to generate lists of events without internal consistency.

However, these first promising results from OpenAI mark a new stage in the manufacture of such a tool, which has also been of interest to the digital giants Google, Microsoft and Facebook for several years. Many companies are indeed looking for a way to save time in the various monitoring tasks. According to a SearchYourCloud survey, employees spend an average of 9.3 hours per week collecting work-related information. A time that OpenAI therefore hopes to be able to reduce thanks to their tool.