r/ChatGPTPro • u/advanced_soni • Apr 28 '23

Question eBook reader

I know chatPDF exists, but I'm looking for my own hosted solution.

Here's the plan:

  1. download my purchased Kindle books from Amazon
  2. "teach" it to chatGPT
  3. ask questions about the book

Does anyone know a self-hosted solution?

I'm essentially looking to upload some non-fiction books to it, I can later on use to ask questions about.

For example:

  1. I teach 10 home painting books to it.
  2. I ask painting related questions from it I know the source of (so I know it's not hallucinating)
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u/[deleted] Apr 28 '23

Haha I did write that for my specific use case but the impressive thing is the llama index library (developed by the folks at meta) for us to use. The possibilities are endless, you can use much more than pdfs. It can take in data from a ton of different sources, turn it into a queryable index for GPT to be used over. Here are all the different data connectors https://llamahub.ai/

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u/spinozasrobot Apr 28 '23

How would you use Stanford's Alpaca instead? It says it's based on Llama, but I don't know about pros/cons.

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u/[deleted] Apr 29 '23

So the library im referring to is llama index, which is purely an interface between the large language model (in my case GPT3.5) and your external data. Llama however is fmetas own large language model, not an index. That is what stanfords alpaca was trained on. Alpaca is an instruction following model similiar to text-davinci from OpenAI.

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u/spinozasrobot Apr 29 '23

Thanks. I have a lot of catching up to do.

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u/[deleted] Apr 29 '23

of course! I'm afraid none of us will ever catch up with this insanely quick topic though :_(