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I don't know anything about AI but I've always wished I could just upload a bunch of documents/books and the AI would perform some basic keyword searches to figure out what is relevant, then auto include that in the prompt.

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It would help if you tried Notebooklm by Google. It does this, you can upload a document/PDF whatever, and ask questions. The model replies to you giving also a reference to your material

+1 Google’s NotebookLM is amazing. In addition to the functionality you mention, I tried loading the PDF for my entire Practical AI Programming with Clojure book and had it generate an 8 minute podcast that was very nuanced - to be honest, it seriously blew my mind how well it works. Here is a link to the audio file it automatically generated https://markwatson.com/audio/AIClojureBook.wav

NotebookLM is currently free to use and was so good I almost immediately started paying Google $20 a month to get access to their pro version of Gemini.

I still think the Groq APIs for open weight models are the best value for the money, but the way OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, etc. are productizing LLMs is very impressive.

i've noticed that copilot seems to do this pretty well, i ask about a function and it correctly looks up the relevant lines of code

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