Are you bullish about "AI" or skeptical?
Due to a lot of my comments being on the skeptical side when it comes to big-tech and these tools, I thought I would redress the balance somewhat with a positive story or two.
The screenshot above is from my web app that I built that uses the Google Cloud API and the OpenAI API to ensure I don't waste my time on clickbait.
You see, I have so many subscriptions now, and YouTube does such a bad job of showing me who I am subscribed to, that I can't possibly watch everything even if I wanted to.
Then there are the the videos like the one in the screenshot where the presenter covers several news stories and does not use chapter markers. Many of them cover the same stuff, just with better or worse thumbnails and titles to draw you in.
So what I do is use the Google API to check in on my subscriptions (in batches, with caching because you very quickly get rate-limited).
For each channel I then see what the latest video(s) is/are. Again, cached.
Then when I go into one of the videos I have the option to get the transcript, summarize the transcript (with a choice of AI model, based on token size, complexity, and cost), and all of this is written to a MySQL database (so that I can run this on my dev or web server and not waste API capacity while testing).
It works pretty well so far.
One of the problems I have had is my web server IP address must be on a block list because I couldn't retrieve transcripts. I ended up using some spare web space and putting a script on there which this app uses as a proxy. Dirty but it works and there's only one user (due to API restrictions and costs I have to keep this one for me only otherwise it would cost a lot $$$ over time)
Next thing I would like to do is make any videos actually worth watching get added to my Watch Next queue so I can still veg on the sofa and watch my videos with a nice brew! ☕️