
AI PDF Reader Tested: UPDF on Papers and Reports
In partnership with UPDF, I tested an AI PDF reader on a research paper and NVIDIA's annual report, focusing on summaries, questions, and checking cited source pages.
We created autonomous AI Agents that monitor the stock market for you while you go about your day.<p>How it works: Tell our AI Assistant what you want to monitor, and it creates a project for our team of autonomous AI Agents. You'll get notifications (email + app) when significant events matching your criteria are detected. For short-term projects, you'll be notified when your analysis is ready.<p>Behind the scenes: When you give the AI Assistant a request to monitor an entity (like a stock or group of stocks), an AI Project Manager plans the project and breaks the project down into manageable tasks. These tasks run asynchronously - some recurring (hourly/daily/weekly/monthly/quarterly/yearly), others one-time.<p>Example prompts you can try: Long-term monitoring: - "Monitor Apple stock and notify me of any important events and red flags" - "Monitor Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Meta stock. Notify me if any of them start trending toward being undervalued"<p>Short-term analysis: - "Create a project to analyze the last 30 earnings calls for Tesla, spot trends, and how the business has evolved over time"<p>You can track the progress of all tasks as the AI Agents work in the background.<p>Try it here: <a href="https://decodeinvesting.com/chat" rel="nofollow">https://decodeinvesting.com/chat</a><p>This is still an early version - we're actively improving it based on feedback. Would love to hear what you think and what features you'd want to see next!<p>Previously shared our AI-powered Stock Market Research Analyst: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41156478">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41156478</a>
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