The Short Version
An AI can read long texts and make a short version of them. That belongs to language AI. Experts call it NLP for short.
What you'll learn in this level
- What makes a good summary
- The difference between extractive and abstractive
- Which mistakes each of the two ways makes
Making Long Texts Short
An AI can read long texts and make a short version of them. That belongs to language AI. Experts call it NLP for short.
It is inside many apps. News apps use it to show short versions of articles. Voice assistants do it too.
How an AI sums up texts
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Find what matters
The AI reads the text. It looks for the most important sentences, facts and ideas.
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Two ways
Extractive means: it cuts important sentences out. Abstractive means: it writes new sentences.
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Learning
The AI learns from millions of examples. That is how it spots what matters in a text.
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How it is used
News apps use it. Researchers use it too. And at school it helps with hard texts.
Soon you will sum up texts yourself. Then you compare your version with the AI's.
Guess first, then experiment
An AI sums a text up in its own words. What can go wrong?