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I did too! See a link elsewhere in this thread.

That is cool, but it doesn't show me the key takeaways like the one in this post (Summate) does. I still have to RTFA after seeing the blurb on your service. It is generally not too far away, but in most cases too short to be useful.

Take the following as an example (a post from yesterday):

Loss of epigenetic information as a cause of mammalian aging

https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(22)01570-7

Autosummarized HN:

    The article discusses how a loss of epigenetic information causes yeast cells to lose their identity and age, and how this process can be reversed by OSK-mediated rejuvenation.

Summate:

    - Aging is caused by the loss of epigenetic information, leading to a variety of age-related diseases and processes.
    - Epigenetic regulation of aging is affected by environmental inputs, including DNA damage and changes in the TGFbeta signaling pathway.
    - Studies in mammals, such as mice, have revealed a wide range of epigenetic changes associated with aging, including increased transcriptional stress, changes in chromatin structure, and increased Wnt signaling.

I guess it boils down to the difference in prompts. Mine is just "Summarize the following article in one sentence: %s\n\n", whereas Summate’s asks for more detail. Also, I’m on text-davinci-002, which tends to produce less verbose output than text-davinci-003.

Excellent work nonetheless.

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