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Posted: Sep 19, 2024

Smooth, helpful, with some room for improvement in detail

I just bought Tier 2, as video transcripts aren't too important for me. I mainly want to interact with large PDFs, so I just tested with a book I know very well. That prooved to be very useful, indeed, the quality of the AI answers ist fairly good.

They are, however, not excellent: Some answers were mistaken in details. E.g., I asked about a concept with five components that is described in the book, and IKI.AI got four of those five components correctly. When I asked to correct and even gave the correct answer, I got a text output with the correct answer, but the provided list still contained the wrong answer. When I corrected again, I got the list with the right items but in the wrong order.

I also asked to provide page numbers to undermine the selection of key facts, but the page numbers I got were just that - some random page numbers without any connection to the text, which the IKI.AI Copilot voluntarily "admitted" when I asked about it. When I asked for direct quotations, I got some that were both fitting to my request and accurately cited, but the provided page numbers were still wrong (a quote that was said to appear on page 16 is actually on page 28 ). It took a couple more requests to actually receive quotes and references with correct page numbers.

Summing up, I'm really thankful for a great new tool in my box. It shouldn't be trusted blindly, and I would really appreciate if the IKI.AI team invested in providing quotations, page numbers etc. so accurate that I could use it for scientific work without having to double check every single quotation. Hence the missing fifth taco. Still, it's way better than everything else I've tried, including AppSumo deal Afforai, which lacked even more in the mentioned respect. I really like IKI.AI's slick, intuitive interface and look forward to use it for gaining new quick insight from a bunch of books on my "should read" list I never get around to actually reading.

I also look forward to Obsidian integration and would suggest looking into Zotero, too - a software used by many academics to organize their documents. It would be a dream come true to be able to link the two ("Upload this document to IKI.AI", then "Chat with this document" directly in Zotero). Thanks to the team for considering these suggestions and for bringing an already very usable product to AppSumo - greatly appreciated!

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