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Wikidive – AI guided rabbitholes in Wikipedia

32 pointsby atulvi11 days ago

9 comments

INTPenis8 days ago
This is a good example of where AI will <i>not</i> take over.<p>Wikipedia rabbitholes do not follow any pattern. To truly create an AI that guides you through Wikipedia rabbithole you&#x27;d have to study thousands of humans going into actual rabbitholes, their clicks, and their reading patterns.<p>Otherwise it&#x27;s just &quot;let this AI take you on a journey you&#x27;re not at all interested in&quot;.
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famahar8 days ago
It just feels like browsing regular wikipedia but with two windows open. Either way, I forgot how much I love diving into knowledge rabbit holes and now have 5 different manifestos printed from the Slow movement (culture) wiki.
enos_feedler8 days ago
This is cool. I&#x27;ve made a browser extension for browsing the web in a more guided way and my first use case was a wikipedia tour guide. You type in a topic in the extension popup and it opens the side panel to track the journey, marking visited links and has a progress bar. it uses tab groups to keep the tour self contained and when you visit all the links it prompts you to close all the tabs.<p>Extension is available here:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chromewebstore.google.com&#x2F;detail&#x2F;unpack&#x2F;mcgdbnjjnnfmnmbljdkobpdgllebjngp" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chromewebstore.google.com&#x2F;detail&#x2F;unpack&#x2F;mcgdbnjjnnfm...</a>
lblume8 days ago
Ok, but what do you need AI for? The two random topics don&#x27;t seem very connected, they could just be random links (or backlinks) from the page. The potential is definitely there, but the execution could be improved.
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atulvi11 days ago
I built this to recreate those late-night Wikipedia rabbitholes. It uses AI to find two fascinating interesting topics related to a topic you choose and then lets you dive deeper.
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graemep8 days ago
It seems to just pick two random pages with the search term in it. With terms I tried Wikipedia search gave me more interesting results.<p>What exactly is the &quot;AI&quot; needed for here?
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krige8 days ago
The categories seem barely helpful at times. For biology I got food and microbiota, which is fair.<p>But then for Chemistry I got quantum mechanics and arabic language, for Metaphysics I got Newton&#x27;s law of gravitation and pop culture. Feels like some links are too tenuous to be useful, or the hallucination issue strikes again.
tonyhart78 days ago
I still don&#x27;t understand why you need 2 article screen for
skort8 days ago
I&#x27;m sure you could ask a historian, librarian, or expert in a field and get a nice, human-curated experience instead of more AI slop.
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