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

[Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>]

On 2/27/24 17:43, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Feb 2024 at 14:32, Konstantin Ryabitsev
> <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>>
>> So, the question is -- is this useful at all?
> 
> I find the demo intriguing. Useful? Who knows, but the potential is
> certainly there.
> 
> The summary didn't seem to take Rafael's last (fairly strongly
> negative) email into account as much as maybe it should have been (my
> first reaction was that maybe Rafael's last email hadn't made it into
> the summary, but going back to it I think it was there, just not
> nearly as forcefully as Rafael's email read to me).
> 
> I personally would find it more intriguing still if it actually
> reacted to the code instead of just the discussion, but I suspect
> that's still some way away.
> 
> IOW - interesting. But hard to tell how useful and how maintainers
> would actually end up using it.
> 
> Would it be something where when you bring a new developer into a long
> discussion, you'd introduce him with a summary of what has gone
> before?  I'm not sure what the use cases would be in practice.
> 

Konstantin,

As I was watching the demo, the same thought popped into my head that
this could be useful to a new developer. I am starting a mentoring
session on March 1st with 34 new developers.

Probably something we could experiment with to see if this helps them?

thanks,
-- Shuah