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Writer's pictureWinston Ritson

Behold the infinite library of AI summarisation


Capriccio with ruins of the Roman Forum - Claude Gellée


Welcome, fellow travellers, to the postmodern age of information overload, where data rains down upon us in an endless digital deluge. We find ourselves inundated, drowning in a vast sea of text - emails, reports, analyses, briefs and dossiers without end. But fear not, for a renaissance is upon us! From the depths of machine learning has emerged a wondrous artificial intelligence, a great synthesiser and summariser of knowledge. Like a digital Michelangelo, it can take the raw marble of data and sculpt it into cohesive, understandable form.


Consider the AI model known as Claude (and not Claude Gellée - much less famous artist than Michelangelo), this language leviathan wields over 300 billion trainable weights, giving it the power to ingest, comprehend and contextualise almost incomprehensible amounts of data. It is one of the greatest libraries of information ever constructed, yet infinitely more powerful.


Imagine the supervisory bliss of being able to command this cybernetic savant: "Summarise the 10,000 page regulatory dossier on new manufacturing standards," and having it flawlessly distill the vast textual tomes into crystallised bullets of crucial insights. No longer must we toil through mountains of PDFs and briefing books. Or perhaps: "Analyse all client communications, contracts, and deal memos from the past year and surface the key risks and opportunities." With superhuman speed and precision, Claude ingests and comprehends tremendous corpuses of data scattered across formats and repositories. It extracts critical knowledge, condenses it, and presents synthesised summaries tailored to your needs.


The era of large language models able to deeply understand, contextualise, and summarise massive data streams is already here. Models like Claude represent the vanguard of a new age of AI comprehension. Like the renaissance artists and scholars who ushered in an age of enlightened understanding through mastery of the ancient world's knowledge, these powerful AI summarizers offer a rebirth of comprehension from the ignorance of information overload.


No longer must we be overwhelmed by the torrents of data pouring from every digital orifice. Claude and its synthetic competitors will pore over the dusty folios, systematically summarising the most important insights just for us. We can turn away from drinking from the firehose, and instead sip curated knowledge nuggets distilled by these modern knowledge machines.


So let us embrace this new era as the inevitable next step in the human/machine synthesis. Let us wield these advanced summarisers as great clarifiers of knowledge. For only once we condense and contour the infinite stream of data can we extract the valuable insights that truly let us understand our world.


The AI renaissance has arrived - a new enlightenment built upon infinitely graspable knowledge.


~ Intelligence is like hair, everyone has its own ~ African Proverb

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