@quotesofnote@zirk.us Yes, they can. Summarizing is recognizing the patterns of what's important and what's not (often by detecting repetition or placement). And all these algorithms really are is advanced pattern recognition tools.

Summarization is a damn-near perfect use case for what that technology is actually good at and meant to achieve.

You can try it yourself with ChatGPT now. Paste an article and ask it to summarize. In many cases, it produces output that's more succinct and easier to read than how a human would summarize it.