Project 2
- I also built a YouTube summarizer for individual video called Summary Cat (https://www.summarycat.com). It is not open source for now. The stack is very similar to project 1.
Mainly because knowledge about Christianity is the most physically accessible to me, as I am a next-door neighbour to a Theology professor of New Testament.
Goal: Generate brief and coherent summaries from YouTube video transcripts
Motivation of building this project: to save myself time watching videos that are too long.
Stack
• Frontend: HTML/CSS, plus a tiny bit of Javascript for handling the button
• Backend: Python/Flask
• Flask served as the backend web framework, handling routes and integrating various services.
• Front+Backend has about 500 lines in total
• Hosting: AWS Free-tier Elastic Beanstalk
• Database: AWS Free-tier RDS
My Prompt (Super Simple!)
• "please summarize the following text into a few paragraphs:" + the full transcript.
Thoughts about GPT-4 vs GPT-3.5-Turbo-16k or Summary Cat
• GPT-4 was 20% better for "summary quality"
• GPT-4 feels 50% faster
• However, GPT-4 is about 10X as expensive as GPT-3.5
I agree that this is happening " an arms race between youtube forcing creators to make videos 8 mins long min to be able to get mid roll ads and people coming up with ways to summarize the transcript." Along the same line: I have been thinking about how my Summary Cat might mean for the content creators. How would it impact their income?
Your "use the summarizer to re-cut the videos" is fantastic!
Thanks for the question... Any sample videos you are thinking of?
Summary Cat doesn't work for videos where there's not a lot of speaking. I am hoping to build a bit more on text-rich videos first, so I do not plan to do actual video (image) processing any time soon.
Hello! Thanks for the question. I do not myself restrict tokens/session. The model I am using GPT-3.5-Turbo-16k (https://platform.openai.com/docs/models/gpt-3-5), allows max 16,385 tokens in total per input/output.
So far, I found that each ~10 minute video uses around 1000 tokens. It costs me about 3 cents to summarize, which is not too bad as I don't have many users, and users haven't been requesting summaries for super long videos yet.
If this sites gets a lot of interest, I might start restricting something :)..
There are people who are perfectly happy with about $250K of take-home pay a year if that means they have plenty of freedom to do other things. In fact, I bet many people in the US will be happy with $30K a year, not $250K.
Fascinating! Any chance I could know which school it is?
I have worked in both computer science and classical music, and found many crossover talents. Two previous Director of Music at my school (UBC in Canada) in the last few decades are both musicians and engineers/physicists.
On the other hand: there must be people who decided they wanted children in high school, but later regret it.
I find it unfair that the society often consider people being "too young; may change mind later" when they say they do not want children; but we don't apply the same standards to young people who want children.