The first feature I tried is Topic Summarization. I tried it with this WxSim related topic: New release coming soon - chance to beta test - #19 by meteosanjuan
I got a new banner at the bottom of the topic, e.g.
This gives a basic summary for the topic, e.g. how many views it’s had, how many links are included and the avatars of those who participated. This doesn’t need AI to generate it. There’s also the ‘Summarize’ button. When I clicked that the topic content was sent to the AI engine which generated the following summary after about 10 seconds:
New WXSIM Build (Version 2024, Build 1.1)
Tom_Ehrensperger announced a new WXSIM build with bug fixes and invited beta testing. weatherbee confirmed the new version worked fine.
Marian_Peteanu encountered issues with white backgrounds in windows and error messages related to “wdatamixed.txt”. Tom_Ehrensperger assisted by explaining the message and requesting log files.
After initial troubleshooting, Marian_Peteanu successfully resolved the issue by correctly importing “wdatamixed.txt”.
The discussion concluded with users, including broadstairs and meteosanjuan, confirming the update worked, and sharing their WXSIM forecast pages. Marian_Peteanu shared a thoughtful reflection on the Olympic spirit and its connection to life.
The summary doesn’t really provide massively useful facts, but it could give you an idea of whether a topic was relevant to what you were looking for.
I’m not sure how much such a summary would cost, but I can see issues with this type of summarization. AI costs are typically based on the size of the input and the size of the output.
So, if you did this on a topic with hundreds (or thousands) of posts the input size would be huge and likely expensive. This gives you an idea of the kind of things I need to investigate before I could make something like this widely available!
It would be interesting to know if you now see the banner and summary for this topic now that I’ve generated it.