"No really: #ChatGPT doesn’t #summarise. When you ask ChatGPT to summarise this text, it instead #shortens the text. And there is a fundamental difference between the two. To summarise, you need to understand what the paper is saying.

But that requires a real understanding that is well beyond large prompts (the entire 50-page paper) and hundreds of billions of parameters.

To shorten text, not so much."

https://ea.rna.nl/2024/05/27/when-chatgpt-summarises-it-actually-does-nothing-of-the-kind/

When ChatGPT summarises, it actually does nothing of the kind.

One of the use cases I thought was reasonable to expect from ChatGPT and Friends (LLMs) was summarising. It turns out I was wrong. What ChatGPT isn’t summarising at all, it only looks like it…

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