Re: Toy/demo: using ChatGPT to summarize lengthy LKML threads (b4 integration)

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

As somebody who (1) did not read the actual thread and only read the
text in the demo, (2) would probably not understand the details being
discussed if he read the actual thread anyway, hence (3) would not
know if ChatGPT in the demo were merely hallucinating, it was a very
nice demonstration. Of course, you are interested in knowing if people
find it "useful", which I unfortunately cannot offer much useful
input.

On Tue, Feb 27, 2024 at 2:32 PM Konstantin Ryabitsev
<konstantin@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>
> Hi, all:
>
> I was playing with shell-gpt and wrote a quickie integration that would allow
> retrieving (slimmed-down) threads from lore, feeding them to ChatGPT, and
> asking it to provide some basic analysis of the thread contents. Here's a
> recorded demo session:
>
> https://asciinema.org/a/643435
>
> A few notes:
>
> 1. This is obviously not a replacement for actually reading email, but can
>    potentially be a useful asset for a busy maintainer who just wants a quick
>    summary of a lengthy thread before they look at it in detail.
> 2. This is not free or cheap! To digest a lengthy thread, you can expect
>    ChatGPT to generate enough tokens to cost you $1 or more in API usage fees.
>    I know it's nothing compared to how expensive some of y'all's time is, and
>    you can probably easily get that expensed by your employers, but for many
>    others it's a pretty expensive toy. I managed to make it a bit cheaper by
>    doing some surgery on the threads before feeding them to chatgpt (like
>    removing most of the message headers and throwing out some of the quoted
>    content), but there's a limit to how much we can throw out before the
>    analysis becomes dramatically less useful.
> 3. This only works with ChatGPT-4, as most threads are too long for
>    ChatGPT-3.5 to even process.
>
> So, the question is -- is this useful at all? Am I wasting time poking in this
> direction, or is this something that would be of benefit to any of you? If the
> latter, I will document how to set this up and commit the thread minimization
> code I hacked together to make it cheaper.
>
> Best regards,
> -K
>