The Magic of GPT: Summarizing and Curating Content for Practical Use

It seems that GPT might be the very tool to get us out the mess it created!

JOHN NOSTA
3 min readFeb 10, 2023

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The world of technology is advancing at a rapid pace, and language models like GPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer) are playing a significant role in this advancement.

Wait, let me try that again.

GPT is amazing and creating a tsunami of content. And it’s making my inbox and the world a real mess. With the click of a button, I can generate content quickly, easily, and (dare I say) well-crafted!

So, it’s fair to say that GPT is a cutting-edge deep learning model that can generate human-like text based on the input it receives. But the magic of GPT lies in its ability to not only create new content but also to curate and summarize existing content to make it more practical and useful. In other words, it’s a bit like business or cognitive housekeeping!

One of the biggest challenges in the modern world is the overwhelming amount of information available. The internet is flooded with articles, blog posts, videos, and other forms of content, making it difficult to sift through it all and find what’s relevant and valuable. This is where GPT comes in. With its deep understanding of language and ability to process vast amounts of text data, GPT can generate concise and relevant summaries of large pieces of information, making it easier for users to understand and use.

For example, imagine you’re researching a topic and have to read through multiple articles to get a comprehensive understanding of the subject. With GPT, you can simply provide it with the articles and ask it to summarize the information for you. The model will process the articles, identify the most important points, and generate a concise summary that includes all the relevant information. This saves you time and makes it easier for you to digest the information and retain it for future use. It’s just so seductively productive. And these summaries can be formatted as bullets or even charts. Yes, it’s a functional and even a visual advantage.

GPT can also be used for content curation. With its ability to understand and categorize information, it can help you filter out irrelevant or redundant information, making it easier for you to find what you’re looking for. For example, if you’re looking for articles on a specific topic, you can ask GPT to search through a database of articles and select the ones that are most relevant to your query. This saves you the time and effort of sifting through a large amount of information yourself, and helps you get to the information you need more quickly.

So, let’s push on this concept a little bit more. I asked ChatGPT to summarize this very article. Here’s the result:

The article highlights the capabilities of Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT), a deep learning language model, in summarizing and curating content. GPT can generate concise summaries and filter relevant information, making it a valuable tool for anyone who needs to process and understand large amounts of information quickly and efficiently. It is expected to revolutionize the way we process and understand information in the future.

Not bad at all.

The magic of GPT lies in its ability to not only create new content but also to curate and summarize existing content to make it more practical and useful. This makes it an invaluable tool for anyone who needs to process and understand large amounts of information quickly and efficiently. Whether you’re a student, researcher, or just someone who wants to stay informed, GPT has arrived—and that toothpaste isn’t going back into the tube! With its deep understanding of language and ability to process vast amounts of text data, GPT—in very unexpected ways— is new inflection point that will change the way we process and understand information today and in the future.

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JOHN NOSTA

I’m a technology theorist driving innovation at humanity’s tipping point.