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+This project creates embeddings for every set of a few paragraphs from the source dataset, in order to do real-time semantic search and question answering on them.
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+Source dataset: Kirchner, J. H., Smith, L., Thibodeau, J., McDonnell, K., and Reynolds, L. "Understanding AI alignment research: A Systematic Analysis." arXiv preprint arXiv:2022.4338861 (2022).
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