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I was thinking something similar. I like the google auto-ai summary for little trivia facts and objective things (who played so and so in the movie? How heavy is a gallon of milk?) this is stuff that is verifiable and could theoretically just be queried from some sort of knowledge base.

But for anything remotely subjective, context dependent, or time sensitive I need to know the source. And this isn’t just for hot button political stuff — there’s all sorts of questions like “is the weather good this weekend?”, “Are puffy jackets cool again?”, “How much should I spend on a vacation?”



> could theoretically just be queried from some sort of knowledge base

Google bought Freebase in 2010 [0] and scaled it [1].

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freebase_(database)

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Knowledge_Graph




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