Maxime wrote: 

Hi Graeme,

The wonderful thing about this "Deep Research" feature is that it lists all of its sources, as found at the bottom of the Google Doc I shared. 

Yes, that is the best thing about it. It means you can read the source material for yourself, and also check if any known source material has been ignored. And it IS a slightly over-powered way of digging back through old forum material and finding for the first time, or re-visiting posts which previously have become very difficult to find.

On that matter, I wonder if this tool can be focussed on a single domain, such as the JRA forums?

We ourselves organise Knowledge. This activity is known as remembering. I've skim read this AI report and found that it didn't say much about JR sail material that I didn't already know as a result of reading and remembering the information provided by people contributing to forum discussions here over the years. (I don't claim to have a good memory  - in fact, I can spend a whole morning searching for a thing I put down a few seconds ago, or even a thing I already have in my hand).

Do we risk degrading this ability to remember, analyse and categorise information obtained through exchange or experience if there's a machine that does it for us?

Anonymous wrote:

Really amazing. A report like that would take hundreds of hours to do.

(I am thinking of a particular little problem that we have in the JRA - that is, trawling back through the forums to find some particular thread, or searching out threads which relate to a particular topic. I think I would still rather do my own reading, but navigating the past forums is now nigh on impossible and our own search engine is almost useless. I am thinking AI might be the tool to enable this).

Anyway, back to the report: very impressive.

Hi Graeme,

The wonderful thing about this "Deep Research" feature is that it lists all of its sources, as found at the bottom of the Google Doc I shared. I have attached a sample image here also. This way, it's possible to go read the relevant threads and context surrounding the information it has chosen to include in the report.

Thus this becomes an indirect, but very efficient way of searching the forums. It also references boatdesign.net, various project websites, and also goes into Youtube video subtitles!

I will be experimenting more in the coming months.

My hope is that this kind of technology will come to supplement human-to-human discussion with knowledge unlocked from long-lost forum threads, rather than replacing it altogether. By collating the current state of the art, it could let discussions focus on building on top of that extant knowledge rather than rehashing it.

Really amazing. A report like that would take hundreds of hours to do.

(I am thinking of a particular little problem that we have in the JRA - that is, trawling back through the forums to find some particular thread, or searching out threads which relate to a particular topic. I think I would still rather do my own reading, but navigating the past forums is now nigh on impossible and our own search engine is almost useless. I am thinking AI might be the tool to enable this).

Anyway, back to the report: very impressive.