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GPT-3 Books — Book recommendations powered by OpenAI
Our first GPT-3 app. The goal is to give great book recommendations (based on what you're in the mood for).
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Fraser Smith
There's a certain irony in having to complete a ReCaptcha before trying this out.
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@frassmith Haha. Cant have those AIs using our AI.
Jokes apart, it was also a requirement from the OpenAI team to prevent spam on their APIs.
Hey Product Hunt! 👋
🤔 Problem
We want to give great book recommendations based on "what you're in the mood to read."
Unfortunately, the only place we've seen this done well is on Penguin Random House's Twitter account.
How do they do it? By employing humans who know A LOT of books and giving each recommendation manually.
We're a tiny team. We can't do this 😔
💡 Solution
Enter GPT-3!
This clever OpenAI tool knows more books than any human. And its clever language model can understand your requests (try asking it for a book on "pirates and romance", you'll see).
Of course, it's not perfect. So please let us know if you have any suggestions on how to improve it etc.
We hope you like it!
@edward_sturm If the AI doesnt hold up, I will personally recommend something better! :)
Interesting use case of AI. Should look at this too - https://www.whichbook.net/ (recommendation based on actual human tags).
Can you also show Goodreads rating for the book and also show if anyone influential has recommended the same book?
@siddharth_nahar1 Thanks, Siddharth! We didn't plan on adding Goodreads ratings (for a few reasons) but we do want to show other recommenders for sure (since that's basically all our site is about)
Why?
You'd be better off with a simple Amazon search API request.
The whole point of this thing is to have "GPT-3" in the name.
I love this, very excited to try it out. I struggle with finding books so often! Spot on with my first suggestion as well (Key words: Romance in War Time - Suggestion: The Nightingale)
